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Germany's Focused Energy raised an oversubscribed $240 million Series A, with utility RWE expanding its stake and offering the decommissioned Biblis reactor site as a home for laser-driven fusion.

The Energy Department released its finalized Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap on June 9, 2026, a national strategy built on three pillars and aimed at a US fusion pilot plant in the mid-2030s.

The Madison startup detailed a 500 MW deuterium-tritium magnetic mirror plant using REBCO magnets from Commonwealth Fusion Systems, claiming a $50/MWh path.

CFS released five peer-reviewed papers with 58 co-authors detailing the physics basis for ARC, its planned 400 MW fusion plant.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems has filed a generation interconnection request with PJM for its 400 MW Fall Line plant in Virginia, the first time a fusion developer has formally entered a major US grid queue.

Munich-based Proxima Fusion, RWE, Bavaria, and the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics have agreed on a two-stage, multibillion-euro roadmap to build a demonstration stellarator and a grid-connected commercial fusion plant at the decommissioned Gundremmingen reactor site.

Helion, Commonwealth Fusion Systems, and China's EAST reactor have each cleared critical technical barriers in early 2026, collectively marking the most concentrated period of fusion progress in the industry's history.