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Japan Launches World's First Commercial Fusion Reactor
A joint venture between Japanese industry and government has begun feeding electricity from a fusion reactor into the national grid for the first time.
By Admin | 8 mars 2026
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In a moment hailed as a turning point for global energy, Japan's Naka Fusion Energy Complex today began delivering electricity to the Ibaraki prefectural grid from a commercially operating fusion reactor.
The plant currently produces 50 megawatts — enough to power approximately 35,000 homes — with plans to scale to 500 MW by 2030.
"Sixty years of research have led to this day," said project director Dr. Haruki Tanaka. "Fusion is no longer the energy of the future. It is the energy of now."
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