TAE Technologies

TAE Technologies has pursued aneutronic proton–boron-11 fusion for more than two decades. Its beam-driven FRC approach uses neutral beam injection (NBI) to heat and sustain a long-lived plasma. In late 2025, the 'Norm' machine demonstrated that an FRC can be formed using NBI alone — eliminating theta-pinch hardware and cutting reactor length roughly in half. In 2026 TAE announced a ~$6B merger with Trump Media & Technology Group, accelerating its path to a 50 MWe commercial pilot.

Aneutronic p-¹¹B sidesteps tritium and neutron damage entirely; NBI-only formation makes the machine short, simple, and replicable.

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.

TAE's reactor architecture rejects both the tokamak and the steam cycle. A linear FRC is heated and stabilized by tangential neutral beams; aneutronic p-¹¹B fuel produces charged alpha particles that can be converted directly to electricity.

Hydrogen-boron FRC with direct ion energy converters: alpha particles slowed by reversed electrostatic potential, plus secondary thermal recovery from bremsstrahlung X-rays in a wall blanket.

Aneutronic fuel means radically simpler radiation shielding, no tritium breeding, materials lifetimes measured in decades. The trade-off is the highest ignition difficulty of any commercial fuel cycle (~3 billion °C plasma).

Aneutronic operation eliminates the most expensive components of a thermal fusion plant (breeding blanket, heavy shielding, steam cycle) and enables direct charged-particle energy conversion at high efficiency. TAE's adjacent businesses (power management, cancer therapy, life sciences) provide near-term revenue while the core reactor matures.

Aneutronic fusion as the cleanest, safest energy source ever deployed at scale.

Deliver clean, abundant power from proton-boron fusion.

• p-¹¹B requires ignition temperatures >10× the D-T cycle
• Bremsstrahlung radiation losses at boron temperatures
• Direct conversion of charged α products to electricity

1. 2022

   C-2W (Norman) sustains plasma > 30 ms at 75M °C

2. Late 2025

   Norm: NBI-only FRC formation breakthrough

3. 2026

   Announced ~$6B merger with Trump Media & Technology Group

4. 2026

   Begin siting 50 MWe utility-scale pilot