Team and expertise assembled
Fusion science, systems engineering and industrial delivery capability brought together around a focused stellarator power-plant programme.
Developing stellarator fusion power plants
Taking fusion from plasma physics to power plant
Fusion energy has the potential to provide abundant energy for future generations. But future fusion power plants require more than advances in plasma physics. They need to be engineered as complete industrial systems that can be manufactured, maintained and operated in practice.
Gauss Fusion is addressing this challenge through a system-level approach to stellarator fusion power plants: developing the architecture, critical technologies and industrial capabilities required to move from fusion science towards deployable power plants.
The GIGA platform
GIGA™ provides the system-level architecture for Gauss Fusion’s future stellarator fusion power plants.
The platform defines what a future stellarator power plant must do, how its principal systems interact and which engineering and technology priorities must be addressed. It allows individual technologies to be developed in the context of the complete plant rather than in isolation.
The GIGA™ Conceptual Design Report, completed in 2025 and subsequently assessed by an independent panel of senior fusion and industry experts, established the architectural foundation for the next stages of engineering, development and integration.
From critical enabling technology to fusion power plants
2023
2025
GIGA™ CDR completed and independently reviewed
Establishing the plant-level architecture, interfaces and priority development areas.
Now
Critical enabling tech development
Advancing DMM™, HEXA™, PinkCap™ and fuel-cycle technologies through design, modelling, prototyping and testing.
Mid 2030s
Gauss Industrial Demonstrator (GID-170)
Industrial demonstrator of the GIGA™ platform, supporting staged first-of-a-kind development and supply-chain validation.
2040s
Scalable fusion power plants
Based on the GIGA™ platform, building on technologies and industrial capability matured through the preceding stages.
Developing the technologies that matter
Advanced high-field stellarator design
Developing the magnetic and engineering configuration at the centre of the power-plant concept, with plasma requirements and surrounding plant systems considered together.
Demountable Mitchell Magnets (DMM™)
Developing a modular magnet architecture intended to address the interconnected challenges of manufacture, transport, assembly, access and maintenance.
HEXA™ Tritium Breeding
Developing a modular breeding-blanket technology that combines tritium breeding, heat extraction and shielding within an adaptable power-plant architecture.
PinkCap™ divertor technology
Developing an integrated approach to managing the heat and particles exhausted from the plasma while protecting surrounding components and supporting maintainability.
Tritium Fuel Cycle
Developing the systems required to extract, process, manage and return tritium fuel through the power plant as part of a controlled fuel cycle.
Built through strong partnerships
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Fusion Expertise
Experience developed across major fusion programmes, facilities and research institutions.
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Industrial capability
Industrial partners with experience in superconducting magnets, specialised manufacturing, complex engineering and fusion-component delivery.
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Scientific and research network
Connections across leading European and international fusion research organisations and programmes.
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Strategic Resources
A partner-led model that brings together manufacturing capacity, infrastructure, supply-chain capability and specialist expertise around the power-plant programme.
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Tom Reynolds