Patrick McGoldrick

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Bloomberg Tech · Micron’s Rosy Memory Outlook Lifts AI Hopes · 18 Dec 2025 podcast

I'm like, really?

Because in fusion, physics and engineering and technology has always been the problem.

So saying we really need the money is an interesting development.

Yeah.

TAA is using a different kind of fuel.

Most of the fusion companies want to use these two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium, tritium.

Tritium is hard to get and it's kind of radioactive.

TAA is using hydrogen boron, which is not radioactive and it's easy to get.

So they talk about that as one of their differentiators, but you know,

Really the key for all of them is the super strong magnets to keep this, you know, hundred something million degree ball of plasma contained.

Yeah, I mean, nuclear moves slow and fusion moves even slower than that.

But the joke on fusion is that it's always 20 years away and it's getting closer.

There's a couple of companies that are making tangible steps.

There's Commonwealth Fusion.

They're actually working already on what they say will be their first commercial plant.

Now, they haven't actually achieved a stable fusion reaction yet, but they're getting close with their demo plant.

TAE says they're going to start building their first commercial plant next year with the money from this deal.

And again, on the call today, they talked about first power in 2031.

They didn't define that.

So I'm curious how exactly what that means.

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