Devens Updates
Mar 19, 2024
Tour of CFS Campus Diagnostics & Operations
As construction of the SPARC facility progresses, the team at CFS is already getting ready to run the tokamak and learn what we can on the path to the ARC power plant. Today, members of the Tokamak Operations and Diagnostics teams will tell you about how we plan on operating and measuring plasmas in SPARC, and how we hope to work with scientists around the world to accelerate our path to fusion energy on the grid.
Mar 04, 2024
CFS-MIT High-Field Magnet Technology for Commercial Fusion Experimentally Validated
A series of six peer-reviewed papers published in the journal IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity have demonstrated the required magnet technology, marking a pivotal moment in the high-field pathway to commercial fusion. These papers describe work that culminated in a 2021 test of the world’s strongest high-temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet for fusion, carried out by MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) in collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS).
Jan 05, 2024
An Update from Commonwealth Fusion Systems
This is the second video in a series of the latest updates from inside CFS. In this episode, CEO Bob Mumgaard and VP of Production Darby Dunn share major milestones CFS has achieved since June 2023 that have helped to accelerate our path to commercial fusion.
Nov 13, 2023
Motor generator centerpiece delivered
The centerpiece of the SPARC motor-generator system has arrived at Devens. The second-life 685 MVA fossil unit successfully moved out of Constellation Energy's Boston Mystic Generating Station to the CFS campus. The generator will be used to convert stored mechanical energy in the world's largest 3600 RPM flywheel system into electromagnetic energy to drive fusion experiments at SPARC.
Oct 16, 2023
Magnet testing cryostat delivered
The large magnet testing cryostat that will test HTS magnets before they are installed in SPARC has been delivered to CFS.
Sep 05, 2023
Ready to assemble SPARC
CFS is ready to assemble SPARC, with weather-tight construction of the Tokamak Hall complete.
May 01, 2023
500 employees hired
CFS announces the hiring of its 500th employee as the world’s largest fusion company.
Feb 10, 2023
Commonwealth Fusion Systems opens fusion energy campus on the fastest path to bring clean fusion energy to the world
CFS officially opened its new campus to support the development and deployment of commercial fusion energy. The ceremonial event today included visits from U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, U.S. Senator Edward Markey, U.S. Representative Lori Trahan, Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, along with a host of state and local leaders.
Jan 25, 2023
New corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility completed
CFS has moved into its new Devens campus, which includes a 165,000 square foot manufacturing facility. This is where we will build our high temperature superconducting magnets for SPARC, our commercially-relevant fusion device. SPARC construction is progressing quickly, and we are still on track for operations to start in 2025.
Apr 21, 2022
Manufacturing facility is under construction
Construction is well underway on our manufacturing facility in Devens. In this facility, CFS will manufacture fusion magnets, the key component of our commercially relevant net energy device, called SPARC, under construction next door. After SPARC, this facility will have the capabilities to manufacture magnets for fusion power plants around the world.
Dec 01, 2021
$1.8 billion in funding raised to commercialize fusion energy
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) has closed on more than $1.8 billion in Series B funding to commercialize fusion energy. This includes capital to construct, commission, and operate SPARC, the world’s first commercially relevant net energy fusion machine at Devens. In addition, it will enable the company to begin work on ARC, the first commercial fusion power plant, which includes developing support technologies, advancing the design, identifying the site, and assembling the partners and customers for the future of fusion power.
Sep 08, 2021
Successful fusion magnet demonstration
CFS, in collaboration with MIT, has demonstrated a successful test of the world’s strongest high temperature superconducting (HTS) magnet, the key technology for a device that will unlock the path to clean commercial fusion energy for the world. CFS is now building the manufacturing facility and capabilities at Devens to support scaling the magnet technology for our fusion proof of concept, net energy device, SPARC, as well as future fusion power plants.
Jun 01, 2021
CFS starts construction of fusion energy campus at Devens
CFS has begun construction of a 47-acre site at Devens that will include a manufacturing facility with company headquarters and a research facility with the world's first net energy device that will prove fusion can work as a commercial power source for the first time in history.
Apr 05, 2021
CFS selects site in Devens, Massachusetts for historic fusion energy campus
CFS has announced the selection of Devens, Massachusetts as the site of its new 47-acre commercial fusion energy campus. “This campus is an important milestone in our mission to commercialize fusion energy and combat climate change. This will be the site where we harness fusion and prove it can work as a clean, limitless power source for the first time in history,” said CFS CEO Bob Mumgaard.
Feb 22, 2021
MEPA NPC certificate
The Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs issued a Notice of Project Change (NPC) certificate pursuant to the Massachusetts Environmental Policy Act.
Jan 19, 2021
CFS issued Unified Permit from Devens Enterprise Commission
At its January 19, 2021 special meeting, the Devens Enterprise Commission issued a Unified Permit Record of Decision to CFS.
Jan 07, 2021
Devens Enterprise Commission Public Hearing
Unified Permit and Site Plan Approval for CFS site.
