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Btaiche: Fuse built world's highest pulse power system and published in Nature

JC Btaiche · Nuclear Race to Power Superintelligence · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Aug 8, 2025 · at 25:25

JC Btaiche, founder of fusion energy startup Fuse, discusses technical milestones achieved by his company.

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“We've built the words highest pulse power system ever called Titan. We fired that for the first time in March of this year and we live streamed it and Publish the results in Nature.”

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The claim, plainly

Fuse built the world's highest pulse power system called Titan, fired it for the first time in March 2025, livestreamed the test, and published the results in Nature.

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Assessment

Public records corroborate all components of the claim: 1) On March 14, 2025, Fuse Energy Technologies Corporation conducted and livestreamed a test firing of its TITAN pulsed power driver with a target implosion ('TITAN 1TW Live Firing with Target Implosion'); 2) Peer-reviewed experimental results for the TITAN impedance-matched Marx generator were published in a Nature Portfolio journal, Scientific Reports, on July 23, 2024 (Damideh, Btaiche, et al., DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-67774-4).

March 14, 2025: Fuse Energy Technologies livestreamed the TITAN 1TW firing with target implosion on official channels.
July 23, 2024: Experimental results for the TITAN system ('Experimental results of a 330 GW impedance-matched Marx generator') published in Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio), Vol. 14, Article 16889.

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[1] f.energy [2] youtube.com [3] nih.gov [4] f.energy [5] fusion-future.com

"10.1038/s41598-024-67774-4" Fuse Energy Titan pulsed power March 2025 livestream

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