Fusion Energy
Building a world without energy limits
Fusion powers the stars. Harnessed here on Earth, it could give humanity access to energy on an unprecedented scale. Imagine a world where energy no longer limits human potential. SHINE is building a practical path to get there.
THE CHALLENGE
Fusion that lives outside the lab
Scientific breakthroughs alone won’t bring fusion energy to the world. Fusion must also become economically competitive with existing energy sources. The challenge is turning technical achievement into an energy technology that can succeed at commercial scale.
OUR PLATFORM
A commercialization engine for fusion
While much of the fusion industry is focused first on technical milestones, we’re already putting fusion technology to work in commercial markets. Our platform integrates four capabilities needed to commercialize fusion. Through products that solve serious problems for customers, we strengthen those capabilities and generate revenue to help fund the next generation of fusion systems.
Technologie
Customer demands push our technology forward. Each product requires us to solve new problems — from increasing fusion output to isolating valuable isotopes and materials. Those solutions expand our technical capabilities, helping us improve performance and drive down costs.
In-house manufacturing
Our teams build complete fusion systems in-house. We also make critical components when they don’t exist on the market or can’t be sourced at the cost or speed we need. That gives us greater control as we move to larger, more complex systems.
Project delivery
We handle engineering, procurement and construction management for complex nuclear facilities in-house, and manage our own licensing process. That puts the people who understand the technology at the center of design and delivery, from start to finish.
Commercial operations
We operate fusion systems and complex nuclear facilities in real-world commercial environments. That means meeting demanding regulatory requirements, including those of the NRC and FDA. This experience gives us the know-how to run complex systems reliably at greater scale. We use those lessons to help each new generation of fusion systems outperform the last.
THE PATH TO FUSION ENERGY
Each product is a milestone — and more.
Every product we pursue has to pass three tests: Does it solve a significant problem in a large enough market? Can fusion outperform existing solutions or compete on cost? And will it advance the capabilities we need for fusion energy? We start where the economics work best, then move into progressively larger markets as we improve the technology and costs come down.
Testen
Testing is a natural first market for our fusion systems. High-value applications, such as radiation-effects testing for aerospace and defense, depend on specialized testing capacity that’s limited and difficult to expand. That creates an opportunity to put fusion to work where its capabilities are valuable today.
Nuclear medicine
Nuclear medicine takes us into a much larger market, one with growing demand and constrained supply. We’re already producing the medical isotope lutetium-177 for customers. Chrysalis, our fusion-driven isotope production facility, will scale our fusion technology in a market we already know how to serve.
Fuel recycling
We’re developing recycling technology that draws on many of the same capabilities we use in nuclear medicine, but at a much greater scale. The process would recover uranium, plutonium and other valuable materials from used nuclear fuel, then use fusion to transform the long-lived waste that remains. And for the first time on our path, the resulting heat would be converted into electricity, giving us a foothold in energy markets.
Fusion energy
Fusion energy is the destination, and our largest market by far. Recycling will let us operate higher-output fusion systems while gaining experience with the scale and complexity we’ll need for fusion power. From there, we’ll be positioned for standalone fusion power that can compete with existing energy sources.
THE TRACK RECORD
Real-world numbers to be proud of
Our commercial-first approach is already producing measurable results — from operating facilities and commercial revenue to dramatic improvements in fusion-system economics.
Fusion reactions per second on our steady state fusion systems
Patents and patent applications protecting our fusion and separation technology
Serving customers across six continents
THE LONG VIEW
A long-term vision built on near-term progress
Our approach to commercializing fusion lets us earn as we learn while doing work that matters today. Our products help make critical systems safer and vital medicines more available. In the future, nuclear recycling can turn used fuel into a resource while reducing long-lived waste. Each product makes a difference on its own. But together, they’re how we plan to turn the extraordinary potential of fusion energy into reality.
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