Fusion Industry Association

The Fusion Industry Association is a US-registered non-profit trade association for the nuclear fusion industry.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] It is headquartered in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 2018 to advocate for policies to accelerate the arrival of fusion power.[9][10][11] Its executive director is Andrew Holland, Chief Operating Officer of the American Security Project. The Fusion Industry Association has 22 members and nine 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.[12][13]

Fusion Industry Association
AbbreviationFIA
Established2018 (2018)
TypeTrade association
Location
  • Washington, D.C.
Membership (2020)
22
Executive Director
Andrew Holland
WebsiteFIA

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.[1][14][15][16][17] It 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.[18]

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; internationalizing a Global North-dominated energy development sector by bridging the North–south divide, and the credibility of some of its members.[11]

See also

References
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  2. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Committee on a Strategic Plan for U.S. Burning Plasma Research (2018). Final report of the Committee on a Strategic Plan for U.S. Burning Plasma Research. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.). Board on Physics and Astronomy. Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press. p. 164. ISBN 9780309487436.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. Claessens, Michel (2019-10-17). ITER: the giant fusion reactor : bringing a sun to Earth. Cham: Springer. p. 196–197. ISBN 978-3-030-27581-5. OCLC 1124925935.
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  5. Committee on a Decadal Assessment of Plasma Science; Board on Physics and Astronomy; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2020). Plasma Science: Enabling Technology, Sustainability, Security, and Exploration. Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press. pp. 6–68. doi:10.17226/25802. ISBN 978-0-309-67760-8.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: date and year (link)
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  8. Tennenbaum, Jonathan (2021-01-20). "Fusion companies aiming at trillion dollar market". Asia Times. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  9. Nehl, C. L.; Umstattd, R. J.; Regan, W. R.; Hsu, S. C.; McGrath, P. B. (2019-10-08). "Retrospective of the ARPA-E ALPHA Fusion Program". Journal of Fusion Energy. 38 (5–6): 519. arXiv:1907.09921. Bibcode:2019arXiv190709921N. doi:10.1007/s10894-019-00226-4. ISSN 0164-0313. S2CID 198179698.
  10. Michaels, Daniel (2020-02-06). "Fusion Startups Step In to Realize Decades-Old Clean Power Dream". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-02-17.
  11. Carayannis, Elias G.; Draper, John; Bhaneja, Balwant (2020-10-02). "Towards Fusion Energy in the Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0 Context: Call for a Global Commission for Urgent Action on Fusion Energy". Journal of the Knowledge Economy: 1–14. doi:10.1007/s13132-020-00695-5. ISSN 1868-7873.
  12. Jul 10, American Security Project on; 2014. "Fusion White Paper – 10 Year Plan for American Energy Security". American Security Project. Retrieved 2020-02-17.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  14. Roma, Amy C.; Desai, Sachin S. (2020). The Regulation of Fusion – A Practical and Innovation-Friendly Approach (PDF). Washington, D.C.: Hogan Lovells. p. 4.
  15. Holland, Andrew (2020-06-12). "Fusion Regulatory White Paper". Fusion Industry Assn. Retrieved 2020-10-07.
  16. Holland, Andrew. "Fusion energy needs smart federal government regulation". The Washington Times. Retrieved 2020-10-10.
  17. Slesinski, Daniel (2021-01-28). "NRC Hosts Virtual Public Meeting on Developing Options for a Regulatory Framework for Fusion Energy". Fusion Industry Association. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
  18. Holland, Andrew (2021-01-05). "Fusion Legislation Signed into Law". Fusion Industry Association. Retrieved 2021-01-30.
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