Fuse-LANL CRADA

The Fuse-LANL CRADA is a formal Cooperative Research and Development Agreement established between private fusion venture Fuse and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Operating at the critical intersection of energy science and defense engineering, the program focuses on the collaborative development and testing of advanced pulsed power technologies. Key research priorities encompass precision target design testing, extreme plasma regime diagnostics, and high-energy-density physics applications that support both clean energy initiatives and strategic defense objectives. This public-private framework builds upon decades of high-energy research stemming back to early institutional milestones such as the declassification of controlled fusion under Project Sherwood in 1958. Through structured access to LANL's specialized computational infrastructure and experimental facilities, the agreement investigates the fundamental scaling laws of pulsed plasma compression. Researchers utilize these facilities to evaluate driver architectures that align with broader scientific initiatives across the national laboratory complex, including adjacent research performed at PPPL.