This Week’s Fusion News: September 25, 2026

This week House Science Committee Ranking Member Zoe Lofgren and Subcommittee Chair Jay Obernolte introduced the bipartisan American Leadership in Fusion Act, which would provide $10 billion to commercialize fusion energy, led by $3.8 billion for materials and fuel cycle test facilities, $3 billion for a new milestone-based demonstration program, and $2 billion for the existing milestone program. Israeli compact fusion company nT-Tao signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Orion Nuclear Energy Corporation, which will act as its U.S. project development and commercialization partner to site, finance, and permit nT-Tao’s 20 MW Compact Fusion System at data centers and other high-load facilities. China’s ENN Group broke ground on Helong-2, a hydrogen-boron fusion platform in Hebei Province that it expects to begin experiments by the end of 2027 and to generate first hydrogen-boron fusion electricity in 2030. Proxima Fusion and the State of Lower Saxony agreed to build Europe’s first large-scale fusion-grade HTS tape factory, with around €140 million planned for the first two phases through 2029 and €21 million committed by the state. Featured this week from The Fusion Report: why fusion companies such as Inertia are recruiting systems engineers and other talent from semiconductor, aerospace, and utility backgrounds. Plus an analysis of where Elon Musk is right and wrong about solar, storage, and the case for commercial fusion.