On October 31 at the G7 Energy and Environment Ministers’ Meeting in Toronto, the Ministers issued a “Statement on Nuclear and Fusion Energy,” which recognized the progress across the global fusion ecosystem and underscored the importance of sustained international cooperation around R&D and regulatory harmonization.
On October 31, U.S. Senators John Curtis (R-Utah) and Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) introduced companion legislation, making the Fusion Advanced Manufacturing Parity Act a bicameral, bipartisan bill. On September 17, U.S. Representatives Carol Miller (R-W.V.), Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.), and Don Beyer (D-Va.), introduced the bipartisan Fusion Advanced Manufacturing Parity Act. The Act extends the Advanced Manufacturing Tax Credit (45X) to include fusion components – an important step in strengthening the American fusion manufacturing base and accelerating the path toward commercial fusion energy.
The European Commission released its 2026 Work Programme on October 20. The programme, titled “Europe’s independence moment,” includes an explicit commitment to fusion, and more broadly signals the strategic shift toward greater autonomy and resilience, placing innovation at the core of its agenda.
On October 16, the U.S. Department of Energy released the Fusion Science and Technology (FS&T) Roadmap, aiming to accelerate the fusion industry in the U.S. “on the most rapid timeline.” It notes that the “goal of the Roadmap is to deliver the public infrastructure that supports the fusion private sector scale up in the 2030s.”
At the October 14th joint opening of the Second Ministerial Meeting of the IAEA World Fusion Energy Group (WFEG) and the 30th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC) in Chengdu, China, Director General Grossi announced the World Fusion Outlook 2025 report. The IAEA’s third annual report serves as a reference for information on the state-of-play around fusion energy research, technology development, and deployment. It also undertakes a country-by-country assessment of fusion development, highlighting the work of many FIA member companies across the world.
After a year of meetings, research, and analysis, the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)-led Commission on the Scaling of Fusion Energy released their culminating report, “Fusion Forward: Powering America’s Future.” The report underscores the imperative to accelerate fusion deployment to secure U.S. national security.
The European Parliament published “Fusion energy: A paradigm shift in power generation for Europe?”, a paper developed at the request of the Panel for the Future of Science and Technology (STOA) and managed by the Scientific Foresight Unit (STOA) within the Directorate-General for Parliamentary Research Services (EPRS).
Collaboration between public and private sectors accelerates industry. The FIA’s new white paper “Opening Public-Sector Data to Empower the Fusion Industry” provides recommendations on how to accelerate development by improving the public sector’s data openness, standardization, and incentives.
Fortune covers the history of fusion R&D, recent breakthroughs, and industry’s acceleration.
The German government has launched its “Fusion Action Plan,” a strategy to accelerate commercial fusion deployment. This move follows the “Hightech Agenda Deutschland” announced in July, which identified fusion as one of six critical future technologies for the nation. With this new plan, Germany is shifting from a focus on basic research to a more industry-driven approach to lead globally in building the world’s first fusion power plant.