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Alpha Alliance: 30 + European companies join forces for fusion
Proxima Fusion has launched of the Alpha Alliance, an industrial consortium bringing together more than 30 leading European and international companies to deliver Alpha, a net-energy-gain fusion demonstrator based on stellarator technology. Alpha is a critical milestone on the path to Europe’ s first commercial fusion power plant.
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Alpha is being developed by Proxima Fusion in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics( IPP) and represents the next step in translating Europe’ s fusion leadership into industrial reality. It will validate the manufacturing methods, materials, and high-performance systems required for future stellarator-based fusion power plants.
Building industrial readiness for fusion The Alpha Alliance was formed to ensure industrial delivery of Alpha by coordinating manufacturing, system integration and supply chains. Members contribute capabilities across materials, components, assembly and infrastructure needed to industrialise and scale fusion systems.
For the first time, a broad crosssection of Europe’ s fusionrelevant industrial ecosystem, complemented by selected international partners, is aligning behind a single, concrete engineering project designed for commercial scaling.
A step toward commercial fusion Anchored around this defined engineering milestone, the Alpha Alliance provides a structured framework to prepare Europe’ s industrial base for not just delivering Alpha but for deploying fusion at scale. This approach supports targeted investment, shortens learning cycles, and accelerates the build-up of a competitive fusion supply chain. The construction of Alpha is expected to create several thousand
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