Coordinated engineering
Fusion systems cannot be developed independently. Requirements and interfaces need to be considered together so that engineering decisions can be managed in the context of the complete power plant.
About Gauss Fusion
Built to industrialise stellarator fusion power plants
Gauss Fusion is a European fusion start-up founded by physicist and industrial entrepreneur Dr. Frank H. Laukien in 2022 to industrialise stellarator fusion. Dr. Frank H. Laukien is President and CEO of Bruker, whose activities include superconducting materials and magnet technologies used in advanced scientific and industrial applications.
The company was created to bring together fusion science, systems engineering and industrial engineering capability within a focused start-up. Gauss Fusion is developing the GIGA™ power-plant platform, critical technologies and industrial capabilities required to progress stellarator fusion towards future deployment.
Gauss Fusion works with European high-tech companies, industrial partners, technology providers and research institutions able to contribute specialist expertise, manufacturing capability and other resources to that programme.
From scientific progress to industrial execution
Gauss Fusion brings together experience developed across major fusion research institutions, facilities and programmes.
Across the team and advisory network, this includes experience from the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wendelstein 7-X, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, ITER, UKAEA, EUROfusion and Fusion for Energy.
This depth of experience spans stellarator physics, superconducting magnets, materials, tritium technologies, plasma-facing systems and the engineering requirements of future fusion power plants.
Designed for industrial reality
A viable power plant must account for how major systems can be manufactured, assembled, operated, accessed, maintained and replaced - not only how they perform technically.
Building evidence in stages
Different technologies mature at different rates. Gauss Fusion advances them through design, modelling, prototyping, testing and staged industrial demonstration to build evidence towards larger-scale integration.
A power-plant company working at a system level
Gauss Fusion begins with the complete power plant. Its GIGA™ platform defines the principal plant requirements, system interfaces and technology priorities that guide the wider development programme.
This system-level approach allows individual technologies to be assessed not only on their technical performance, but also on how they affect manufacture, assembly, operation, maintenance, licensing and the economics of a future plant.
European capability, open to wider partnership
Gauss Fusion’s founding shareholders contribute experience across superconducting materials and magnets, vacuum and cryogenic systems, specialised manufacturing, engineering and industrial delivery.
The company works with additional industrial partners, technology providers, research institutions, infrastructure partners and investors able to contribute complementary resources and expertise.
Gauss Fusion - a focused organisation
Gauss Fusion combines a core team responsible for power-plant architecture, programme direction and technology integration with specialist capabilities drawn from partners across industry and research.
This model is intended to concentrate resources on the engineering decisions, technologies and industrial collaborations that are most important to the development of a credible stellarator power-plant pathway.