Pioneering fusion energy company on a mission to power the world with clean, safe, sustainable energy, and deliver power solutions for EVs and energy storage
Inventing sustainable technologies for the world’s greatest challenges has always been at the heart of what we do at TAE.
Today we’re proud to introduce TAE Power Solutions, a new spin-off company that will revolutionize EVs and stationary energy storage.
The planet needs a clean energy solution, and as our CMO Jim McNiel told
@business
's Hannah Fry (
@FryRsquared
), "When fusion works, there are no losers."
Watch the full segment about how commercial fusion energy could power the world:
For the fusion companies working toward making net fusion energy a reality, the recent milestone within the industry has inspired even more hope that this clean energy could one day power the world 🌏
Read more in
@TIME
:
Scientists are quickly approaching a turning point in developing commercial fusion power to provide an abundant, carbon-free, non-radioactive source of energy to meet the growing global demand. What happens when
#Fusion
becomes a reality? via
@TheAtlantic
Milestone achieved—and surpassed! ✅
TAE Technologies’ state-of-the-art fusion research reactor Norman has achieved temperatures greater than 75 million° C while demonstrating unmatched real-time control of plasma. (1/6)
TAE has chosen a unique path to commercial fusion: Hydrogen-boron fuel, magnetic confinement + accelerator beams to heat and stabilize plasma.
“These are just some of the breakthrough innovations that set TAE apart,” Christoph Krachten said.
They say all dogs go to heaven, but sometimes they aren’t ready to. Daji had malignant cancerous tumors that endangered the dog’s life, until she was given a second chance: A treatment co-developed between Neutron Therapeutics and
@taelifesciences
🐶
Watch here:
What does the recent breakthrough in fusion energy mean for the scientific community?
Here’s what our CEO Michl Binderbauer had to say on
@livenowfox
.
“If we're ever going to come anywhere close to our carbon reduction targets, it's essential to keep existing nuclear reactors operating,” says former
@NRCgov
Chairman Richard Meserve, who joins TAE’s podcast Good Clean Energy.
Hear more:
With increasing
#ExtremeWeather
and record breaking
#heat
around the world, former U.S. Secretary of Energy
@ErnestMoniz
told our podcast recently that the public is in a position to demand more from national policy.
Hear his roadmap forward:
The central challenge of
#fusionenergy
is holding fragile
#plasma
at high enough temperatures for a long enough period of time. Take a 60,000 fps peek inside Norman, our National Laboratory-scale plasma generator, to see one of our experiments at work.
#science
#innovation
Fusion energy is arguably the most exciting discovery by humans since fire. 🔥
Here are 5 ways fusion energy could reshape our planet:
Read the full article:
1% of the world’s land surface is unlivable due to extreme heat. By 2070, that’s going to go up to 20%.
To prevent this, science journalist Gaia Vince (
@WanderingGaia
) says we need to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy.
Listen here:
We’re proud to share promising new research published in
@SpringerNature
’s
@NatureComms
journal. Along with our partners at
@NIFSplasma
in Japan, TAE has conducted the first-ever hydrogen-boron fusion experiments in a magnetically confined fusion plasma.
TAE’s VP of Operations Hiroshi Gota and Senior Director of Physics R&D Richard Magee traveled to visit our partners at National Institute for Fusion Science in Japan to participate in a joint experiment on the Large Helical Device last week.🇯🇵🤝🇺🇸
Fusion’s promise is worth it.
“I think that fusion offers the younger generations hope.”
- Jane Hotchkiss, president and cofounder of Energy for the Common Good (
@energy_common
)
Listen to and follow Good Clean Energy:
TAE is proud to announce that we've reached an important scientific milestone and raised an additional $280M to deliver safe, carbon-free utility-scale fusion power that can sustain the planet for millennia.
We are proud to announce that TAE has been chosen as the first private fusion energy company to partner with
@iterorg
, the world’s largest fusion experiment. Together, we will work to advance the development of fusion power and a well-trained workforce.
We recently had the
Congratulations to the TAE team and all of our collaborators on our new publication in Nuclear Fusion!
Our fifth-generation fusion machine, Norman, has achieved notable improvements in the duration of steady-state operations, plasma energy and
Curious about investing in fusion energy?
@Newsweek
reports on how options are limited now because none of the 33 private fusion companies are publicly traded—yet. But some investors have options.
#FusionEnergy
is making headlines!
"This is a 'hurrah!' moment for humanity, and it's going to create the backbone of stable, reliable power 24/7 to drive that entire ecosystem of electrified things," TAE Technologies' CEO told
@NBCNightlyNews
Norman exceeded expectations: Designed to keep plasma stable at 30M° C, the reactor was optimized to sustain plasma at more than 75M° C, 250% over its original goal. Here’s what plasma looks like inside Norman: (2/6)
TAE Technologies is hiring! Come join the our diverse team of the most brilliant physicists, engineers and other experts – all committed to improving people’s lives through clean technologies. See our open positions here:
Fmr. Energy Sec.
@ErnestMoniz
returns to our podcast to discuss
#Oppenheimer
through the lens of today’s energy needs.
“Fission has been an enormous boon to emissionless, carbon-free electricity. But fusion would take that yet up another step.”
Listen:
TAE’s chosen fusion fuel — hydrogen-boron — could provide humanity with “100,000-plus years of terrestrial supply,” our Chief Policy & Global Affairs Officer R. David Edelman (
@R_D
) told
@Forbes
.
Read more about our plan to commercialize fusion:
“After nearly 25 years in existence, TAE has pioneered technology with applications beyond just fusion.”
@BBCNews
reports on TAE’s disruptive fusion innovations in machine learning and beyond, set to transform clean energy
With a track record of over delivering on milestones and performance, TAE has attracted the support of visionary investors and to date has raised a total of $1.2 billion for its commercial fusion development using clean, safe, abundant hydrogen-boron fuel.
We are proud to announce that TAE has received another INFUSE award from
@ENERGY
to develop next generation plasma heating technology. This funding signifies continued federal support and an endorsement of TAE's vision for clean fusion energy.
TAE Technologies has partnered with
@Google
for nearly a decade to develop
#MachineLearning
that can accelerate the timeline toward commercial fusion energy.
Learn more via
@GoogleAI
:
And see more of our research here:
TAE was honored to host
@UKAEAofficial
to discuss research collaborations in neutral beams and advanced materials R&D.
(From left) UKAEA’s Head of the Special Techniques Group Chris Peters + Head of Business Development Rajeev Deshprabhu, w/ TAE Sr. Dir. of Physics R&D Rich
This 14-year-old built a working
#fusion
experiment at home, so we invited him to tour TAE HQ.
#GenZ
will face the biggest
#energy
challenges in history and we hope to inspire continued work toward a solution. We believe together we can create a bright future for us all.
Calling all fusioneers! On May 9, we’re hosting a virtual tour of our fifth-generation fusion research machine, Norman, as part of the inaugural
@USFusionEnergy
Week. You’re invited to join us and learn more about our proprietary technology to bring hydrogen-boron fusion to the
#COP26
ends with a focus on
#fusion
as a clean, safe and abundant climate solution.
Still have questions? We've got answers.💡
Get the basics on
#FusionEnergy
with our FAQs and learn how TAE is working to build the ultimate carbon-free energy source:
TAE Technologies is proud to announce a new paper published in
@NaturePhysics
, detailing findings from our proprietary Field-Reversed Configuration approach to
#fusionenergy
, which combines plasma physics with accelerator physics.
#science
#innovation
This week TAE Technologies Director of Computational Sciences Sean Dettrick spoke at an Exascale Computing Project meeting to share our progress on developing a Numerical Fusion Reactor and visited Frontier, the world’s fastest supercomputer, at
@Energy
’s
@ORNL
.
Our recent scientific experiment with NIFS details the first-ever hydrogen-boron fusion experiments in a magnetically confined fusion plasma—an important step toward our goal of commercial, clean fusion energy 💡
Read more:
We are excited to announce our new podcast, “Good Clean Energy.” 🌱
In our first episode, former Secretary of Energy
@ErnestMoniz
talks about the urgent need for low-carbon “firm power.”
Listen here:
Fun fact about Norman: the plasma formed in its quartz tubes is accelerated to speeds of up to 670,000 mph—fast enough to circle the earth in 2 minutes 🌎 (4/6)
This
@CNET
piece touches on something big: What sets TAE apart from other fusion companies is our longstanding pursuit of hydrogen-boron as the fuel for future commercial fusion power plants.
Members of the Congressional Fusion Energy Caucus
@RepMikeLevin
,
@RepYoungKim
, and
@RepDonBeyer
toured TAE’s headquarters recently, as part of their critical effort to ensure the U.S.continues to lead in fusion energy.
Read more:
We’re proud to announce that for the sixth year in a row TAE has won an INFUSE award from the U.S. Department of
@ENERGY
for innovative fusion research conducted with a national lab ⚡
This year’s grant goes to TAE’s Director of Computational Sciences Sean Dettrick, who will
A Bloomberg analyst says the nuclear fusion market will be worth $40 trillion.
TAE is on track to deliver power to the grid in the next decade.
"We’re in striking distance of what the machine needs to do," says TAE CEO Michl Binderbauer.
Everyone is buzzing about
#FusionEnergy
ahead of tomorrow’s
@Energy
announcement at
As TAE’s policy chief
@R_D
told
@WashingtonPost
:
“This is a very important milestone on the road toward fusion energy.”
TAE applauds North Carolina’s leadership (
@SenPaulNewton
, Senator
@Buck_Newton
, Senator Dave Craven) in enacting Senate Bill 678 and the state’s commitment to investing in fusion as a new clean electricity source that can be an important part of the state’s energy mix.
TAE Technologies is developing clean fusion energy, which “has the potential to be a scalable source of no-carbon energy generation," as Chevron Technology Ventures President Jim Gable told CNBC:
In 1969,
@TheRealBuzz
made history by walking on the Moon, and we’re grateful he’s had a hand in supporting TAE Technologies fusion energy for the last 20 years. The vision and audacity of NASA and the
#Apollo11
astronauts inspires us to this day.
TAE's latest experimental and simulation results bring us even closer to our goal of commercial
#fusionenergy
.
Read an overview of this work in two new papers published in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Nuclear Fusion:
TAE mourns the loss of Dr. Arno Penzias, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who was pivotal to our progress. Arno called fusion “the most important thing for humanity since the taming of fire,” and was committed to bringing fusion power to the world. He will be greatly missed.
Of the many approaches to commercial fusion energy, “TAE proposes something yet more intriguing. Its fuels are boron (five protons and six neutrons) and ordinary hydrogen, both plentiful,” according to
@TheEconomist
.
We believe hope and imagination can spark innovative climate solutions. TAE Technologies is excited to have a cameo in Tom Hanks'
#Finch
, streaming on
@AppleTV
+ starting Friday, November 5.
We are proud to announce that our plasma generator, Norman, has exceeded the performance of our previous machine, C-2U, in record time. This milestone sets a new company record for plasma temperature, + brings us one step closer to commercial
#fusion
power
One year after publishing the world’s first measurements of a magnetically confined hydrogen-boron fusion plasma, TAE and Japan’s National Institute for Fusion Science have completed another round of successful joint p-B11 experiments 🎉
Hydrogen-boron, or p-B11, is the
The Norman reactor was named for Dr. Norman Rostoker, TAE’s brilliant technology co-founder & professor
@UCIrvine
, who passed away in 2014. His vision for combining plasma physics with accelerator physics at the forefront of engineering technology still drives our progress. (5/6)
TAE applauds
@CAgovernor
's enactment of AB1172 today, recognizing the potential of fusion as a clean energy source. Led by
@AsmLisaCalderon
and
@JoshNewmanCA
, this law makes California the first state to add fusion energy to its future regulatory framework
Not only is
#FusionEnergy
carbon-free but, as
@CNET
reports, a comparatively tiny amount of fuel can produce the same energy as millions of barrels of oil. 🚛🛢️
Read more:
TAE is committed to delivering grid-ready fusion by 2030 to create economic security, global energy independence, and energy equity. Our CEO Michl Binderbauer shared our bold vision at today's first-ever
@WhiteHouse
#Fusion
Summit.
Watch here:
This achievement validates the life’s work of TAE’s technology co-founder Norman Rostoker, a pioneer in fusion energy research who died before he could see the company reach its latest milestone thanks to his visionary design.
Exploration of hydrogen-boron fuel for commercial fusion energy development is promising.
Along with our partners at
@NIFSplasma
, TAE has conducted the first-ever hydrogen-boron fusion experiments in a magnetically confined fusion plasma.
Read
@NatureComms
:
As fusion developers around the world race to commercialize fusion energy, TAE Technologies has pioneered the pursuit of the cleanest path to carbon-free electricity with hydrogen-boron, the most cost-competitive, sustainable fuel for fusion. Learn more:
As 2021 comes to a close, we're looking back at our big moments of the year. 🎊 It doesn't get much bigger than reaching a landmark fusion technology milestone:
From all of us at
#TAE
, wishing you a safe and happy New Year!
The future of clean energy is being built in California! 💪🏿💪🏽💪🏻
TAE has been awarded a highly competitive
@CAGoBiz
grant of $17.4 million to support job creation, development of TAE’s sixth fusion research device, called Copernicus, and more:
TAE Technologies is proud to sponsor & present at the National Society of Black Physicists conference in Charlottesville, VA, Nov. 6 - 9.
And we're hiring! Visit our booth to learn about job opportunities in
#fusionenergy
, or visit
@NSBPInc
#NSBP2022
We're pursuing fusion fueled by p-B11 because we want to deliver the cleanest, safest and most sustainable energy source to the world.
It is audacious, and we're up for the challenge. Read more via
@Nature
TAE welcomed
@RepYoungKim
pictured here with CEO Michl Binderbauer, for a tour of our 5th-generation machine Norman and our breakthrough power management technology.
Thanks for joining us to learn more about California’s largest
#FusionEnergy
company!
Hydrogen-boron (p-B11) fusion differs from many other fusion projects:
✅ Fuel is abundant and cheap
✅ p-B11 fusion is aneutronic, which means no radioactive fuel or waste
See our peer-reviewed paper in
@SpringerNature
journal
@NatureComms
:
Why? Hydrogen-boron is cheap, plentiful and non-radioactive.
Hydrogen-boron requires higher temperatures than conventional fusion fuels, but that’s the challenge TAE has chosen, for the benefit of our energy ecosystem and the planet.
Coming to the grid in the early 2030s.🗓️
We’re Hiring! TAE is the first private fusion power company, commercializing the cleanest, safest, most sustainable energy source on Earth. If you are passionate about our mission, we want to hear from you.
#hiring2020
#engineers
“TAE is beginning to find that the hotter its plasma gets, the better its particle accelerators and magnetic confinement systems perform, with lower rates of particle and heat leakage.”
Read more at
@nwtls
:
A pioneer in the field of fusion energy, the author of 12 books and more than 600 scientific papers, including one of the most cited articles in the history of plasma physics.
Meet Dr. Toshiki Tajima, Chief Science Officer at TAE Technologies.
“This is an era we’ve been working toward for decades. There’s a confluence between the science being very well understood and at the same time the technology being mature enough to meet the scientific challenge” of fusion, TAE CEO told
@BloombergNEF
:
TAE is developing clean
#fusionenergy
through a unique combination of plasma and accelerator physics. Our device, Norman, uses 88 red magnetic coils and 8 particle accelerators (yellow cylinders) to heat and stabilize plasma in the central confinement vessel.
#science
#innovation
TAE is developing the cleanest, safest form of carbon-free energy — and we’re hiring!
Take a peek inside our facility in Foothill Ranch, California, home to our state-of-the-art fusion machine, Norman.
As
@BillNye
says in the video, “This could — dare I say it — change the
We're counting down the last days of 2021 by reflecting on some of our favorite moments of the year.
That includes our partnership with
@NIFSplasma
for the first large-scale experiments with the cleanest fusion fuel source, p-B11 🌎.
Learn more here:
TAE was founded in 1998 to create a transformational fusion energy source that’s safe, clean, and capable of sustaining our planet for generations to come. To us, every day is
#EarthDay
. 🌎🌍🌏💚
Our CEO Michl Binderbauer was in Houston, Texas for
#CERAWeek
, to discuss the practicality of TAE commercial fusion and how close we are to providing clean, limitless energy to the world.
#CWAgora
#FusionEnergy
TAE applauds
@CAgovernor
signing of AB1172 this week, which recognizes the potential of fusion as a clean energy source. Led by
@AsmLisaCalderon
and
@JoshNewmanCA
, this law makes California the first state to add fusion energy to its plans for a clean energy future.
We're honored to see TAE's hydrogen-boron fusion featured in Nikkei!
Our latest peer-reviewed research paper in
@NatureComms
highlights the first-of-its-kind success of our joint hydrogen-boron fusion experiments:
We founded TAE in 1998 to create the ultimate green energy source through fusion. The patented IP we’ve developed along the way is now being leveraged to transform cancer care and EVs.
@PhysicsToday
on our growing portfolio of sustainable solutions:
Humanity needs a clean, sustainable energy source, and fusion could be the game-changer. Read our CMO Jim McNiel’s article for
@WEF
to see how fusion could solve the issue of heating during the cold months. ❄️🔥
#fusionenergy
Fusion power will be achieved with teamwork (and a lot of research!) 💡
We are always updating our research library with new peer-reviewed papers and posters, which have been presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, as well as the 29th Fusion
Our CTO Artem Smirnov welcomed
@RepLouCorrea
to HQ to discuss progress toward delivering commercial fusion energy in the 2030s and our innovations in power management and life sciences.
Fusion is crucial to our economy, energy independence and the environment 🌱🌏
Happy birthday to our technology co-founder Dr. Norman Rostoker, who would have been 97 years old today. Norman passed away in 2014, but his spirit lives on in TAE’s mission to deliver clean, abundant commercial fusion energy to the world.