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General Atomics (GA)

Last updated Mar 20, 2026

Fusion Machine Developer Component Supplier
Projects: 2Supply Chain Offerings: 8Funding (Nondilutive): 7News: 8Publications: 44

Founding Year

1986

Location

United States flag San Diego, California, United States

Leadership

Richard Buttery, Director

Website

www.ga.com

General Atomics is an energy and defense corporation focusing on developing research and technology for energy systems, defense, aerospace, and commercial applications.

News

DIII-D upgrades to shape the future of magnetic fusion energy research

Aug 29, 2026 • American Nuclear Society -- ANS

Poway fusion test facility could bring commercial power closer

Aug 21, 2026 • NBC 7 San Diego

General Fusion Provides First Public Company Business Update

Aug 18, 2026 • General Fusion

New ML framework predicts shifts between shots at DIII-D

Aug 18, 2026 • ANS Nuclear Newswire

General Atomics awarded $20M California tax credit for nuclear fusion testing center

Aug 3, 2026 • KPBS

San Diego’s General Atomics gets $20M to advance fusion energy in California

Jul 4, 2026 • San Diego Union-Tribune

Standing tall

Jun 29, 2026 • ITER Organization

General Fusion Achieves Compressional Plasma Heating with LM26 Magnetized Target Fusion Machine

Jun 22, 2026 • General Fusion

Publications

Effect of small magnetic fields on stimulated Raman scattering in the kinetic regime

Sep 30, 2026 • Journal of Plasma Physics

Modulated deuteron spectra observed with the magnetic recoil neutron spectrometer at the National Ignition Facility

Sep 30, 2026 • Journal of Plasma Physics

Phase space resolved measurements of fast-ion density fluctuations and energy transfer induced by Alfvén eigenmodes

Sep 25, 2026 • Nuclear Fusion

Demonstration of H-mode Error Field Identification in a Single Discharge via Island Healing

Sep 24, 2026 • arXiv (physics.plasm-ph)

PQLS: A Quasilinear Gyrokinetic Transport Solver with a Bayesian Saturation-Rule Closure

Sep 24, 2026 • arXiv (physics.plasm-ph)

Mechanism of Ionization Avalanche in Tokamak Microwave Gas Breakdown

Sep 18, 2026 • arXiv (physics.plasm-ph)

Improved n=1 empirical error field penetration threshold scaling with Ohmic and L-mode conventional tokamak plasma discharges

Sep 15, 2026 • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Neural network surrogate model for drift-kinetic energy perturbation for internal kink instability

Sep 15, 2026 • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Electromagnetic gyrokinetic analysis in Tokamak Energy’s pre-concept design of the ST-E1 fusion power plant

Sep 14, 2026 • Nuclear Fusion

Effect of pedestal current on the density window for ELM suppression using n = 4 RMP in EAST

Sep 10, 2026 • Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

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Projects

DIII-D

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Description

DIII-D is a DOE owned Office of Science national user facility, operated by General Atomics. Its goal is to close out critical plasma research gaps on the path to fusion energy and enable fusion commercialization agenda by partnering with private industry, academia and national laboratories,

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Supply Chain Offerings

Supply chain category

Low Temperature Superconductor (LTS) Magnets
Product offering
Low Temperature Superconductor (LTS) Magnets

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Waveguides & Transmission Guides
Product offering
Waveguides & Transmission Guides

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Targets
Product offering
Targets

Supply chain category

Plasma Diagnostics
Product offering
Plasma Diagnostics

Supply chain category

Plasma Modeling & Simulation
Product offering
Plasma Modeling & Simulation

Supply chain category

High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Magnets
Product offering
High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) Magnets

Supply chain category

Control Software
Product offering
Control Software

Supply chain category

Simulation Software
Product offering
Simulation Software

Projects Supplied

ITER

2007 - Present

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Supply Chain Category

Low Temperature Superconductor (LTS) Magnets

DescriptionGeneral Atomics is providing the central solenoid assembly to ITER.

ITER

2007 - Present

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Supply Chain Category

Waveguides & Transmission Guides

DescriptionGeneral Atomics is providing ECH transmission line wave guide assemblies to ITER

Funding Received (Nondilutive)

September 10, 2025

programFIRE Collaborative
FundersFusion Energy Sciences (FES)
AnnouncementFIRE Collaborative: Fusion Energy Data Ecosystem and Repository (FEDER)

August 8, 2024

programINFUSE
FundersFusion Energy Sciences (FES)
AnnouncementINFUSE: Developing Matter Injection Technologies for Fusion Power Applications

August 8, 2024

programINFUSE
FundersFusion Energy Sciences (FES)
AnnouncementINFUSE: Metal “Film” Pump for Direct Internal Recycling of Fusion Fuel

January 17, 2023

programINFUSE
FundersFusion Energy Sciences (FES)
AnnouncementINFUSE: Machine learning-accelerated predictions of power and particle exhaust in a fusion pilot plant

June 15, 2022

programINFUSE
FundersFusion Energy Sciences (FES)
AnnouncementINFUSE: Fuel Cycle and Tritium Plant Model for Fusion Pilot Plant

November 22, 2021

programINFUSE
FundersFusion Energy Sciences (FES)
AnnouncementINFUSE: In-Field Performance Testing of a Novel HTS CICC for Practical and Cost-Effective Fusion Magnet Systems

June 4, 2021

programINFUSE
FundersFusion Energy Sciences (FES)
AnnouncementINFUSE: Performance Testing of Low-Resistance Demountable HTS Joints for Large Segmented Magnets

Funding Provided (Investment)

August 25, 2025

roundUNITY-2 Funding
FundedFusion Fuel Cycles (FFC)
AnnouncementUNITY-2 Funding: General Atomics Invests $20 Million in Canadian Nuclear Fusion Venture to Advance Tritium Fuel Cycle Technologies

Founding Year

1986

Location

United States flag San Diego, California, United States

Leadership

Richard Buttery, Director

Website

www.ga.com

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