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2025 ANS Winter Conference & Expo
November 8–12, 2025
Washington, DC|Washington Hilton
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Bipartisan commission report urges national fusion strategy
In the report Fusion Forward: Powering America’s Future issued earlier this month by the Special Competitive Studies Project’s (SCSP) Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy, it warns that the United States is on the verge of losing the fusion power race to China.
Noting that China has invested at least $6.5 billion in its fusion enterprise since 2023, almost three times the funding received by the U.S. Department of Energy’s fusion program over the same period, the commission report urges the U.S. government to prioritize the rapid commercialization of fusion energy to secure U.S. national security and restore American energy leadership.
SCSP is a nonpartisan, nonprofit initiative making recommendations to strengthen America’s long-term competitiveness in emerging technologies. Launched in fall 2024, the 13-member commission is led by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.) and Jim Risch (R., Idaho), along with SCSP president and commission co-chair Ylli Bajraktari.
Senior Advisory Board Members
Tunc Aldemir
The Ohio State University
USA
Carol S. Smidts
Paul Amico
Jensen Hughes
Steven Arndt
ORNL
Bob Budnitz
LBNL (Retired)
Fernando Ferrante
EPRI
Katrina Groth
University of Maryland at College Park
Zahra Mohagheh
University of Illinois
Curtis Smith
INL
Mehdi Reisi-Fard
NRC
Huyn Gook Kang
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Matt Denman
Kairos Power
Dave Grabaskas
ANL
Kevin O’Kula
Nuclear Safety Consultant
Enrique Droguett
University of Chile
Chile
Marina Röwekamp
GRS GmbH
Germany
Man Cheol Kim
KAERI
Korea
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Organization
Country
Enrico Zio
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
JinKyun Park
Luca Podofillini
Paul Scherrer Institute
Switzerland
Matthew Degonish
Callaway
Richard Denning
Retired
Samantha Sabatino
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Andrea Maioli
Westinghouse Electric Company
Andrew Whittaker
University at Buffalo
Ben Chen
Argonne National Laboratory
Bob Youngblood
Idaho National Laboratory
Carol Smidts
Claudia Picoco
EDF
Cory Ball
Curtis L. Smith
David S. Grabaskas
Dong-San Kim
Enrique Meléndez-Asensio
Consejo de Seguridad de Nuclear (CSN)
SPAIN
Eric A. Thornsbury
Fan Zhang
Georgia Institute of Technology
Gabriel Georgescu
IRSN
France
Hyun Gook Kang
Devi Kompella
India
Joomyung V Lee
North Carolina State University
Ken Kiper
Kevin Coyne
Chung-Ang University
Manuel Pellissetti
Framatome
Marko Cepin
University of Ljubljana
Slovenia
Michelle Bensi
University of Maryland
Mohamed Hibti
Muhammed Modarres
Nathan Siu
NRC_Retired
Ronald L. Boring
Sai Zhang
Seung Jun Lee
Ulsan Nat'l Institute Science and Technology
Stephen Hess
Steven Prescott
Svetlana Lawrence
Todd V Paulos
NASA
Vaibhav Yadav
Valentin Rychkov
Vincent Paglioni
Colorado State University
Xiaoyu Zheng
Japan Atomic Energy Agency
Japan
Xingang Zhao
Yunfei Zhao
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