Gauss Fusion, the European greentech company founded with the aim of building the continent’s first commercial fusion-power plant, has announced a series of collaborative agreements that collectively form the start of the next phase of the company’s development roadmap.
These partnerships channel significant resources from Europe’s leading engineering and manufacturing firms, as well as from respected research institutions. Alongside its partners, Gauss Fusion is advancing the industrialisation of key components, and these partnerships reaffirm confidence in Gauss Fusion’s strategy to deliver grid-scale fusion energy within two decades.
In Italy, Gauss Fusion and the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA) are co-developing HTS cables and joints capable of operating under extreme magnetic field strengths. In parallel, a new collaboration with the Italian Consortium for Applied Superconductivity (ICAS) – a consortium involving ENEA, Criotec and Tratos – is manufacturing LTS cables and maturing industrial processes for HTS conductors, ensuring a flexible, dual-track magnet supply chain.
Elsewhere, Gauss Fusion is strengthening its long-term collaboration with Spanish engineering firm IDOM, Germany’s Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and the Jülich Research Centre (FZJ). This team is finalising the industrial design of the Tritium Breeding Blanket (TBB) – the component that produces the tritium fuel inside a fusion reactor – and integrating it with the plant’s fuel-cycle systems. This work – backed and partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research – combines KIT’s and FZJ’s expertise with the know-how of Gauss Fusion’s industrial partners, to apply robust, scalable engineering principles from the outset to minimise future redevelopment risk.
Gauss Fusion has also signed a new agreement with Alsymex, a French specialist manufacturer for ITER, among others, to run a feasibility assessment of the TBB design and fabricate prototype sub-assemblies. The partnership will operate from Gauss Fusion’s tritium centre of excellence in Mérignac, ensuring that ability to manufacture and maintain the breeder blanket – as well as the costs associated with this – are properly incorporated before full-scale production begins. Gauss Fusion and its partners are already exploring follow-on project opportunities that would potentially widen the scope of these collaborations in 2026 and beyond.
Milena Roveda, CEO of Gauss Fusion, said: “Europe’s fusion race will be won not by the size of a single fund-raise, but by the depth of industrial know-how committed to solving real engineering challenges.”
With initial prototype concepts being assessed for performance, and detailed manufacturing studies under way, these combined collaborations move Gauss Fusion closer to its next milestone: full system engineering of the GAUSS GIGA plant concept and site selection from a Europe-wide study led by the Technical University of Munich.
