Posted on 01/07/2026 3:58:10 AM PST by Libloather
Weeks after the Trump Media and Technology Group announced a merger with nuclear power company TAE Technologies, the new organization has unveiled plans for a fusion plant in the US — aiming to make it the biggest power generation site in the world.
On Tuesday morning, the company unveiled criteria for selecting the building site of the new project. CEO Devin Nunes tells me they are accepting applications from state and local governments — much like Amazon HQ did — and will make a decision within weeks, with construction to begin later this year.
And Nunes is clear about one thing: “We’re only going to be building this in a red state.”
This would be the first of its kind commercial fusion electric plant in the US and would, Nunes, notes enable America to compete with nations like China that have access to almost unlimited energy.
“This is a long-term solution,” Nunes said.
Application requirements include a minimum of 20 acres to house multiple fusion reactors, as well abillity to distribute energy on a grid, proximity to a metropolitan area with talent and support from local and state government, as well as the ability to maintain a security presence.
“The TMTG team is actively holding discussions with multiple states and entities about potential sites as we look forward to completing this merger,” Nunes said in a statement. “These are the initial steps to spark a renaissance in American energy to secure safe, clean, abundant, and affordable fusion power that will lower Americans’ energy bills and guarantee America’s predominant position in the A.I. revolution.”
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There is more to this than what democrats do us for. ie: it os not just a Lexington VA red hen story,
FAFO
I thought fusion was always 20 years away and just needed more research money for future research. I must be uninformed. Fusion ? Sure, if they say so. Sounds like a wonderful story.
Theoretical physicists think of things; they create models. Experimental physicists “do shit.”
I’m happy someone wants to do something because that’s the only way we learn.
The South could really use the investment.
20 acres? They are not serious.
I thought fusion needed a breakthrough. If it’s hydrogen to helium, expect Democrats to declare that helium is a pollutant. A lot of energy is “clean” enough for me. There are people who will reject all forms of energy.
It’s a gamble, not a fully sustainable energy source - yet - but we’re getting closer every day. Germany’s building a fusion proof of concept plant now, the USA should too.
But why not in BLUE states?
They’d rather turn off the gas/oil spigots, re-wild the rivers by opening dams and spillways, rely on unreliable solar, wind and chakric or crystal “energy” while the rest of us rational thinking humans rely on fission/fusion and a future where we migrate off-planet leaving them in the dust and to squabble over pronouns and warmed over socialism.
Libturds LIKE to be left in the dark. It’s why the waste stream media is so popular with them; why they’re still crying over the loss of their Corporation for Propaganda Broadcasting, National People’s Radio, Pedophile Broadcast System the short-lived American Radio and other, unsustainable “news” outlets.
Unsustainable without large inFUSIONS of taxpayer dollars.
Trump’s doing this using FREE market principles.
Q: what did leftists use for lighting before candles?
A: ELECTRICITY!
The red states will take the fusion future. The blue states can have their antiquated windmills and eventually pay red states through the nose for fusion electricity to supplement their faltering grids. Works for me
GREAT!
Fusion is going to be a while. Trust me on this one. There are a few technical kinks to work out. After you figure out confinement and radiation damage resistant materials and energy conversion and all that you also have to figure out where you are going to get all the tritium Deuterium is “free” in seawater but tritium decays with a 12.6 year half-life and so there is no such thing as a tritium mine. You have to produce it. We know how to do that. You use a fission reactor, and since we are now talking fission, which is an actual as opposed to hypothetical “technology” why don’t you just do that since, as I said, fusion is going to be a while yet.
I know China brags about its fusion R&D, but I have not heard about a break even or profitable fusion reactor any where before.
No, they are not. While we do not know how to make a fusion power plant that actually works, what we do know is the radiation safety consequences. Start with one 14 MeV neutron per fission and you can figure out the activation levels of all the material in the plant and and radiological consequences for storage, containment, safety, handling, shipping, ground water, airborn contamination, offsite consequences, disaster planning requirements, etc. Then you just turn that through the NRC licensing process and you get , just my opinion, a few more than 20 acres. It's not going to be a whole lot different than today's nuke plants. Yeah, for the most part you don't have long-lived fission products so the 100 M year storage problem is relieved, but you still have to worry about all the stuff that is going to be around for decades - after you stop operating.
The NRC licensing process is surely overly complex, but the underlying radiation safety issues are inescapable consequences of physics and biology.
Just throwing this out there: Although Fusion energy isn’t a reality yet, this could give us a jump by having land, structures and electrical feeds in place as the technology for fusion power generation matures. This is opposed to having the issues of fusion energy solved in a lab, and starting with nothing to move the lab results to an actual power plant.
Exactly.
Agreed. That’s tiny. Too small for anything serious.
Most of the freepers on this thread may not know what TAE is working on
TAE uses boron in their process.
TAE is pursuing fusion with hydrogen-boron (a.k.a. p-B11 or p11B) because it is abundant and non-radioactive, making it the most sustainable option for operating and maintaining commercial fusion power plants.
https://tae.com/fusion-power-page/
As TAE’s founding members saw it, this approach was the most practical, providing a reliable, cost-effective and dispatchable carbon-free energy source with no nuclear meltdown risk, no radioactive waste, and no risk of proliferation.
Available virtually everywhere around the world with approximately 100,000 years of natural supply, hydrogen-boron fuel is non-radioactive, a.k.a. aneutronic. In its primary reaction, it produces only three helium atoms as a byproduct – a hallmark that inspired TAE’s original company name, Tri Alpha Energy.
I’ll bey Elon has a hand in this tech
The other is maintaining continuous operation of the fusion reactor. On that point, what good is a fusion power plant if it cannot function reliably and predictably over a prescribed period.
I hope they build it toward the center of a red state so there won’t be much tricky down money flowing across the boarders from wages etc.
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