Pacific Fusion Breaks Ground on First-of-a-Kind Fusion Facility in New Mexico
The privately funded project aims to reach net facility gain by 2030 and host national security experiments as fusion startups race to commercialize power.
- On Tuesday, Aug. 25, Pacific Fusion broke ground on a $1 billion fusion energy facility in Mesa del Sol, Albuquerque, positioning the United States to advance commercial fusion technology.
- Drawing on decades of research from Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory, the facility serves Pacific Fusion's mission to achieve net facility gain by 2030.
- Chief technical officer Keith LeChien stated each pulse will generate about 100 megajoules, roughly 10 times the output of the National Ignition Facility, using 156 pulser modules.
- Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told attendees the U.S. is in a race with China on fusion energy, while Pacific Fusion's technology could support national security.
- The facility is expected to create more than 200 permanent jobs while supporting state mandates under the Energy Transition Act requiring utilities to use 100% renewable energy by 2045.
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US Sen. Heinrich joins former Google CEO to tout clean energy at Pacific Fusion’s NM groundbreaking
From left to right: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Pacific Fusion co-founder and CEO Eric Lander speak on an Aug. 25, 2026, panel about fusion and the future of clean energy in the U.S. (Joshua Bowling/Source NM)U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) told a crowd gathered in Albuquerque’s Mesa del Sol community Tuesday that they have a front-row seat to the “most scientifically exciting time in the history of …
Pacific Fusion Just Broke Ground on a $1 Billion Test Reactor
Three-year old startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on Tuesday on what it says will be the world’s first fusion plant to produce more energy than it consumes. The company is aiming to achieve this milestone, known as net facility gain, by 2030. If successful, it would provide the first real-world demonstration that the physics underpinning commercial fusion can work at facility scale. To date, fusion tests have only achieved scientific net gain —…
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technewstube.comPacific Fusion’s next fusion machine could clear a key hurdle to commercial power
Fusion startup Pacific Fusion broke ground on a demonstration facility in New Mexico that it says will generate enough energy to power itself.
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