VACES 09 2025 .pptx

1、,Our path to Commercial Fusion PowerJennifer GantenChief Global Affairs Officer,from Resources for the Future,Massive Industrial Transformation,Energy is civilizations driver With it,anything is possible Without it,everything stopsProvide basic human needsPush the boundaries of technological advance

2、ment(AI,automation,space exploration)Enable modern economies and productivityEnsure world stability through energy securityLift billions out of poverty,Cannot unlock next lever of growth without new innovation,Fusion energy:the ideal source of energy,The ultimate power source build a machine to make

3、 energy instead of relying on natural resources,Clean zero emission heat or electricityFirm able to provide baseload or on demand powerScalable affordable,modular,site it anywhere,can use existing infrastructureSecure no geopolitically fraught supply chain,all fuel procured up frontSafe no chain rea

4、ction,no meltdown risk,no decay heat,no high-level waste or proliferation,The world is in a race to build power plants,Fusion is scientifically proven,as demonstrated by the historic Q1 results by NIF The next step in the advent of the fusion industry:demonstrate fusion working in a commercially rel

5、evant form factorThat means:more power out than in(Q1)at industrial scale for durations that matterwith real fusion fuelsdelivered in a package that can be replicated,On the cusp of commercial reality,Progress over decades,SPARC,ARC,Moores Law:Number of transistors on microchips,Tokamaks,Q=1,ITER,Fu

6、sion Performance Metric(fusion triple product 1020m-3keV*s),Tremendous progress in the past 60 years,Global private fusion industry,More than 50 global startups Nearly$11 billion in private investment75%of companies believe that fusion electricity will be on the grid in the 2030s