The Fusion Industry Association is a US-registered non-profit independent
trade association for the international
nuclear fusion industry.
It is headquartered in
Washington, D.C
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. It was founded in 2018 to advocate for policies to accelerate the arrival of
fusion power.
Its executive director is Andrew Holland, Chief Operating Officer of the
American Security Project
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. The Fusion Industry Association has 28 members and 35 affiliate members, including
nuclear reactor designers,
engineering firms,
suppliers,
academic institutions, and various professional services with business in the nuclear fusion industry such as research consultancies. The emergence of the Fusion Industry Association can be traced back to the 2013 publication of a
white paper on fusion energy by the American Security Project.
The Fusion Industry Association's stated advocacy objectives are to encourage private sector fusion companies' partnering with the public sector for applied fusion research, to increase financial support for the industry, and to ensure regulatory certainty.
It is seen as one of the main drivers behind the development of Fusion Pilot Plants and supported the fusion energy public-private partnership amendment in H.R.133 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which authorized $325 million over 5 years for the partnership program to build fusion demonstration facilities. The Fusion Industry Association has also played a role in the formation of the Congressional Fusion Caucus.
Challenges facing the Fusion Industry Association include attracting the billions of dollars of funding necessary to create a commercial fusion power industry; improving the private sector's relationship with the public sector, including the world's largest fusion power science experiment,
ITER
ITER (initially the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, ''iter'' meaning "the way" or "the path" in Latin) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject aimed at creating energy by replicating, on Earth ...
; internationalizing a Global North-dominated energy development sector by bridging the
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, and the credibility of some of its members.
See also
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Canadian Nuclear Association
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Nuclear Energy Institute
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Nuclear Industry Association
The Nuclear Industry Association (NIA) is a subscription based trade association for the civil nuclear industry in the United Kingdom. It represents more than 260 companies across the nuclear supply chain. The diversity of NIA membership enables ...
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World Nuclear Association
World Nuclear Association is the international organization that promotes nuclear power and supports the companies that comprise the global nuclear industry. Its members come from all parts of the nuclear fuel cycle, including uranium mining, ur ...
References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/
Nuclear industry organizations