US Fusion Legislation: What Is In The Pipeline?

Roughly six weeks ago, The Fusion Report ran an article on the funding that the private sector (primarily in the US) had put into fusion energy commercialization.

We reported in that article that the total funds received worldwide by commercial fusion concerns being somewhere around $10.2 billion. In contrast, the U.S. government puts (far) less than $1 billion per year into funding fusion energy research and commercialization, especially when funding for nuclear weapons safeguarding is taken out.

At the same time (and at least partially motivated by energy prices due to the Iran conflict), European and East Asian governments are putting large amounts of money into fusion commercialization, not to mention China’s fusion investments.

Read the full article.