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Proxima Fusion signs MOU with Bavaria, RWE, and Max Planck IPP to build German stellarator power plant
Proxima Fusion has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Free State of Bavaria, German electric company RWE, and Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) to build a commercial stellarator fusion power plant in Europe. Based in Munich, Proxima was spun out of IPP in 2023.
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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.
