Kyoto Fusioneering moves U.S. headquarters to Oak Ridge

Kyoto Fusioneering is relocating its United States headquarters from Seattle, Washington, to Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The move involves a $46.9 million investment and is expected to create 51 new jobs. The company will receive a grant from Tennessee’s Nuclear Energy Fund to support the development of critical fusion testing infrastructure.

In partnership with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the company aims to address the scarcity of tritium, a radioactive hydrogen isotope essential for fusion fuel. Through the UNITY-3 project, Kyoto Fusioneering intends to build a testing facility using a particle accelerator to simulate high-energy neutrons. This device will test prototype lithium blankets designed to ‘breed’ tritium within a fusion reactor, providing empirical data to refine existing computational models.