Fusion Power PAC WASHINGTON, D.C.

A Bipartisan Political Action Committee

Fusion Needs a Voice in Washington

America has led fusion energy research since Project Sherwood in 1951. A new industry is now racing to put fusion power on the grid, and the policy choices ahead will decide how fast it gets there. That's where we come in.

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Our Mission

What We Do

01

Educate Congress

Most members of Congress have never toured a fusion lab or met the engineers building this industry. We change that, one meeting at a time, on both sides of the aisle.

02

Back Fusion Champions

We support House and Senate candidates, in both parties, who fight for the research budgets and sensible licensing rules that fusion needs to reach the grid.

03

American Leadership

Fusion is a global race, and leadership is earned. We work for the research investment, supply chains, and manufacturing base that keep the U.S. at the front of it.

Heritage

Seventy Years in the Making

In 1951, the United States quietly launched Project Sherwood — the classified national program in controlled nuclear fusion. At Princeton, Lyman Spitzer's stellarators chased the physics of the stars. At Los Alamos, James Tuck's Perhapsatron pinched plasma into filaments of light. Declassified in 1958, that program seeded everything that followed: the national laboratories, the tokamak era, and today's private fusion industry racing to put fusion electrons on the grid.

Cover of Project Sherwood — The U.S. Program in Controlled Fusion, by Amasa S. Bishop, 1958
Fig. 1 — Project Sherwood: The U.S. Program in Controlled Fusion. Amasa S. Bishop, 1958.
Diagram of the fully formed pinch: a red plasma ring inside a torus, encircled by green magnetic field lines
Fig. 2 — The pinch effect: plasma confined by its own magnetic field. Project Sherwood, 1958.