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Nuclear Energy Conference & Expo (NECX)
September 8–11, 2025
Atlanta, GA|Atlanta Marriott Marquis
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Startup looks to commercialize inertial fusion energy
Another startup hoping to capitalize on progress the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has made in realizing inertial fusion energy has been launched. On August 27, San Francisco–based Inertia Enterprises, a private fusion power start-up, announced the formation of the company with the goal of commercializing fusion energy.
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Promethian Energy and Space Technologies is a specialized startup providing advanced solutions in nuclear safety, instrumentation, and space systems. Our core capabilities include:
• Criticality Accident Alarm Systems (CAAS): Full-scope design, procurement, fabrication, and installation.
• Nuclear Instrumentation: Novel detector development and commercialization, including fast fission neutron detectors and combined neutron–gamma detection systems.
• Criticality Safety & Modeling: Facility analyses and safety assessments using MCNP, with expertise spanning fast fission and thermal reactor systems.
• Radiation Effects Testing: Nuclear materials testing of electronics and advanced materials under high neutron/gamma fluence, with multiple publications in the field.
• Space Applications: Instrumentation and materials testing for space nuclear systems, reactor monitoring solutions, and engineering approaches to unique nuclear challenges.
Promethian brings together deep technical expertise and agile problem-solving to support the DOE/DOD complex, research institutions, and industry partners. Our mission is to deliver innovative nuclear safety and space-power technologies from concept through deployment.
