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2026 Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
August 24–27, 2026
Dallas, TX|Hilton Anatole
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DOE’s latest fusion strategy aims for commercial energy by the 2030s
The Department of Energy has released what it is calling a “finalized” national strategy to accelerate the development and commercialization of fusion energy, with the goal of scaling up the private fusion sector by the mid-2030s.
Released on June 9, the Fusion Science and Technology (FS&T) Roadmap builds on an earlier road map document the DOE released in October 2025, which itself echoed plans issued by the DOE’s Office of Fusion Energy Sciences in 2023 and 2024.
According to the DOE, this finalized road map brings together fusion science, technology, infrastructure, workforce development, and commercialization priorities into a single national strategy, outlining how the DOE, industry, universities, and national laboratories will work together to accelerate the path toward U.S. commercial fusion energy.
2024 ANS Annual Conference
Ben Goodrich has spent his career in nuclear-adjacent technology development. As a Director, Ben leads a farrago of business functions including Strategy, Business Development, and Sales within TerraPower Isotopes, an emerging global supplier of actinium-225 used with radioligand therapy for cancer treatments. His expertise includes commercialization, deal structuring and negotiation, financial modeling, clinical trials forecasting, and isotope demand planning.
Ben has enjoyed over a decade of leading technical projects and turning ideas into reality at TerraPower. Prior to TerraPower, Ben worked at Idaho National Laboratory within the Technology Transfer and Commercialization Office.
Ben earned an MBA from Idaho State University and an undergrad from BYU-Idaho. He holds PMP, CVA, and CLP credentials and has multiple patents on hydrocarbon fractionation and liquefaction using super-critical CO2.
Ben currently lives in Northwest Montana with his wife and four children. In his spare time, Ben leads outdoor adventure trips with teenagers and does regular hands-on ‘research’ to find the best trout flies.
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