Amentum and Kyoto Fusioneering Announce Strategic Collaboration to Accelerate Global Fusion Commercialization
The companies intend to pursue public and private fusion programs across the United Kingdom, Japan and United States.
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Under this agreement, Amentum and Kyoto Fusioneering intend to pursue joint opportunities across major public and private fusion programs, integrating Amentum’s established, technology-agnostic fusion engineering capability and expertise in systems engineering, plant integration, nuclear safety, digital engineering and program delivery with KF’s confinement-agnostic fuel cycle, breeding blanket and plasma heating systems and its experience integrating them into fusion plant designs. Together, Amentum and Kyoto Fusioneering will explore opportunities to combine fusion engineering and expertise with advanced digital and AI-driven engineering and program delivery tools. This has the potential to optimize design cycles, improve predictive performance and accelerate the transition from experimental systems towards commercially viable fusion plants.
“The Amentum and Kyoto Fusioneering partnership comes at a pivotal moment for the global fusion energy sector,” said Mark Whitney, president of Amentum’s Energy and Environment business. “By combining Amentum’s capabilities with Kyoto Fusioneering’s advanced fusion technologies, we can help address the engineering and delivery challenges required to move fusion from experimental systems towards commercially viable power plants. This collaboration represents a shared commitment to accelerating the delivery of clean, secure and scalable fusion energy.”
“Building a fusion power plant will depend on collaborations like this one,” said Kiyoshi Seko, president and COO of Kyoto Fusioneering. “Amentum brings nuclear engineering and program delivery experience at the scale fusion programs will need as they move toward construction. We look forward to working with the Amentum team to combine that experience with our fuel cycle, breeding blanket and plasma heating systems on programs in the
Japan’s national fusion strategy and its growing investment in support of private-sector demonstration projects create significant new opportunities for this collaboration. Founded in 2019, Kyoto Fusioneering has quickly become one of the world’s leading private fusion engineering enterprises. Combining KF’s technology and position in the Japanese fusion market with Amentum’s international fusion engineering and program delivery capabilities creates a strong platform to pursue opportunities in
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Kyoto Fusioneering (KF) is a confinement-agnostic fusion technology developer and system integrator serving public and private fusion programs worldwide. Founded in 2019 as a Kyoto University spinout, KF designs and supplies fuel cycle, breeding blanket and thermal cycle, and plasma heating (gyrotron) systems, and develops the UNITY program of fusion test facilities. KF is based in Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan, with subsidiaries in the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany and a joint venture with Canadian Nuclear Laboratories in Canada.
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