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Anubal Fusion

Inertial confinement — proton-boron

Confinement

Inertial

Fuel Cycle

Hydrogen-Boron (p-¹¹B)

Funding

Series A in 2025

Timeline

TBD

Investor brief

Indian aneutronic inertial fusion for distributed industrial power

Executive Summary

Anubal Fusion is an Indian aneutronic startup pursuing proton-boron inertial fusion with a compact-driver architecture aimed at distributed industrial heat and electricity.

Strategic Thesis

Aneutronic + small + Indian manufacturing cost base = distributable fusion modules for industrial Asia.

The Problem

Global electricity demand is entering an unprecedented growth phase driven by AI infrastructure, data centers, transport electrification, industrial decarbonization, water desalination, and advanced manufacturing. Solar suffers intermittency, wind capacity-factor variability, natural gas carbon emissions, conventional nuclear cost and deployment speed, and batteries energy-density and duration limits. The world requires a new source of clean, dispatchable baseload energy. Fusion represents the ultimate energy source — the challenge is making it commercially practical.

Compact-Driver p-¹¹B Inertial Fusion

A small inertial fusion driver coupled to aneutronic p-¹¹B targets produces a distributed power module sized for industrial heat and small electricity loads.

Compact Driver

Small-form-factor driver designed for modular deployment.

Aneutronic Targets

p-¹¹B targets eliminate the breeding blanket and most shielding.

Fuel Strategy

Hydrogen-Boron (p-¹¹B)

Aneutronic operation enables direct energy capture and simpler plant design.

Product Platform

Early Prototype

First-stage prototype of compact p-¹¹B driver.

Energy Conversion

Category

Direct (Electrostatic)

Neutronicity

Aneutronic

Target efficiency

Direct — bypasses Carnot

Inertial p-¹¹B ignition with direct collection of alpha particles on biased grid arrays.

Conversion chain

  1. 1Pulsed driver on p-¹¹B target
  2. 2Aneutronic fusion → alpha particles
  3. 3Electrostatic grid collector → DC
  4. 4Power conditioning → grid

Aneutronic fuel + direct conversion bypasses Carnot and eliminates the entire radiological back end.

Economic Vision

Distributable fusion modules manufactured in India undercut diesel and small-scale gas turbines for industrial Asia.

Vision

Distributed aneutronic fusion as the industrial energy default in Asia.

Mission

Build a manufacturable compact p-¹¹B fusion module from India.

Engineering Bottlenecks

  • p-¹¹B ignition energy
  • Driver efficiency

Milestone Timeline

  1. 2025

    Series A round

The description above reflects Anubal Fusion's publicly stated technology goals, roadmap and architecture. Many elements — particularly net-energy gain at scale, advanced fuel cycles, and grid-relevant economics — remain ambitious objectives that have not yet been demonstrated commercially anywhere in the fusion industry. Forward-looking statements should be treated as engineering targets, not certainties.

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Citations & Sources

Academic & financial rigor
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    The Global Fusion Industry in 2025

    Fusion Industry Association · Jul 2025

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    Company disclosures and press releases

    Anubal Fusion

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    Peer-reviewed plasma physics literature

    Journal of Plasma Physics / Nuclear Fusion