Marvel Fusion

Marvel Fusion is Europe's leader in short-pulse laser-driven proton-boron inertial fusion. The company is partnering with Colorado State University on a $150M+ laser facility to test nanostructured aneutronic targets at fusion-relevant fluence.

Aneutronic p-¹¹B with picosecond pulses on nanostructured targets bypasses the central-hot-spot ignition 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.

Marvel uses picosecond-class laser pulses on precision-nanostructured p-¹¹B targets to bypass the central-hot-spot ignition problem that has dominated traditional inertial fusion.

Ultra-short-pulse laser ignition of p-¹¹B fuel pellets at high repetition rate; alpha-particle energy deposited in a wall and recovered as heat for a conventional steam cycle.

Keeps the back end conventional (proven steam turbines) while still benefiting from aneutronic fuel: vastly simpler shielding, no tritium breeding, longer materials life.

Eliminating the breeding blanket and most of the shielding via aneutronic operation collapses balance-of-plant cost; the remaining engineering problem is driver efficiency.

Bring aneutronic inertial fusion from the lab to the grid.

Prove p-¹¹B ignition with short-pulse lasers on nanostructured targets.

• Picosecond laser energy at fusion-relevant fluence
• Nanostructured target mass production

1. 2024

   €113M Series B

2. 2025

   Colorado State University facility broke ground