DOE funds ORNL and Kyoto Fusioneering test facility
August 13, 2026, 1:49PMNuclear News

From left, Shaun Gleason, ORNL partnerships office director; Joe Hoagland, FFESD associate laboratory director; Arnie Lumsdaine, fusion private-public partnerships lead; Christian Day, KF senior vice president of plant technology; Colin Baus, KF vice president of research and commercialization; Satoshi Konishi, KF cofounder, CEO, and chief fusioneer; Bibake Uppal, president of Kyoto Fusioneering America; Stephen Streiffer, ORNL director; and Takashi Imai, KF director and chief corporate management officer. (Photo: Carlos Jones/ORNL)
Yesterday, Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that the Department of Energy has committed funding to develop a fusion breeding blanket test facility at the lab in partnership with Kyoto Fusioneering, and the company announced it will be relocating its U.S. headquarters to Oak Ridge, Tenn., with support from the state of Tennessee’s Nuclear Energy Supply Chain Investment Fund.
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