ORNL, Rutherford Energy Ventures launch fusion partnership

August 7, 2026, 7:03AMNuclear News
Leaders from ORNL and REV pose at the FULCRA kick-off meeting in mid-June. (Photo: Carlos Jones/ORNL, DOE)

Fusion Upscaled Leveraged Consortia for Rapid Acceleration (FULCRA) is the new public-private partnership between Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Rutherford Energy Ventures, a fusion consultancy company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass. FULCRA intends to create shared fusion test bed infrastructure at ORNL to serve as a design and funding model for similar test facilities at other national laboratories.