Overview
- Bavaria, Hamburg, Hesse, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein created the Fusionsallianz at a Munich event.
- Bavaria’s science minister Markus Blume hailed the founding as a significant day for German energy research.
- The grouping aims to link research, industry and policymakers through joint training programs, shared use of labs and cooperation with suppliers.
- The stated ambition is for the world’s first commercial fusion power plant to be built in Germany.
- Environmental advocates, including Greenpeace Bavaria’s Saskia Reinbeck, warned that fusion remains costly and technically unresolved and is unlikely to contribute to power supply for decades.