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SHINE said it is collaborating with DOE's Argonne National Laboratory and Case Western Reserve University to apply chemical separation technology to the nuclear fuel recycling process it is developing, conducted through ARPA-E's CURIE Program with additional funding led by Case Western Reserve, where SHINE participates as a subcontractor. Argonne is developing equipment called PaCERS (Packed Centrifugal Equipment for Radiochemical Separation), which spins fast enough to generate centrifugal forces beyond ordinary gravity to increase chemical separation efficiency — a higher-throughput, lower-solvent approach. SHINE is working to apply PaCERS to separation processes including those recovering strontium-90 and americium-241 for medical, manufacturing and advanced power uses, and to minor actinide recovery. SHINE states spent nuclear fuel retains some 90% of its energy potential. No value for SHINE's subcontract was disclosed.

SHINE said it is working with GE Vernova on an ARPA-E-funded project to develop a modernised system for tracking spent fuel through the recycling process, led by GE Vernova's Advanced Research Center. The project aims to use AI to optimise spent nuclear fuel tracking and measurement at recycling facilities, developing technology called MAYER (Monochromatic Assays Yielding Enhanced Reliability) intended to track and measure nuclear material in real time. As a GE Vernova subcontractor, SHINE is developing sensor deployment and AI-powered material-tracking systems so that material control and accountability can be designed into recycling facilities from the outset. SHINE CTO Ross Radel framed the goal as avoiding permanent cost and disruption from accountability requirements. No award value for SHINE's scope was disclosed.

TAE announced an agreement with Black Moon Energy Corporation (BMEC) to support future commercialisation of fusion power through a prospective helium-3 fuel supply option and a commercial development collaboration. Hedged language preserved as issued: under the terms, BMEC "would supply" helium-3 to TAE, and the release describes the supply as a "prospective" option rather than a contracted volume. TAE frames the value as fuel flexibility for its hydrogen-boron field-reversed-configuration approach ahead of Da Vinci, its first commercial plant.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory licensed a suite of four cryogenic pellet fueling inventions to Type One Energy under an agreement signed at the Nuclear Opportunities Workshop in Knoxville, Tennessee on 5 August 2026. The technologies form solid hydrogen pellets a few degrees above absolute zero and inject them at high speed into the plasma core, which is more effective than gas puffing and improves plasma performance. It extends an existing ORNL relationship that already covers a high-heat-flux test facility and a joint INFUSE programme project. ORNL Director Stephen Streiffer described it as moving fueling research out of the lab and into application; John Canik, Type One's Chief Science and Engineering Officer, called high-repetition reliable fuelling one of the most essential capabilities for a commercial plant.

Barclays announced on 21 July 2026 that it is supporting the UK Infinity Fusion Consortium, the private-sector-led collaboration formed in May 2026 by Type One Energy, Tokamak Energy and AECOM to develop a commercial fusion power plant in the UK. Barclays contributes expertise in energy, infrastructure, project finance, capital markets and commercial frameworks rather than committed capital. Group Chief Executive C.S. Venkatakrishnan said fusion has the potential to become an important part of a secure, resilient and low-carbon energy system. Barclays and the consortium members are all members of the Sustainable Markets Initiative founded by King Charles III. The consortium is positioned as complementary to the UK Government's Fusion Strategy and the flagship STEP programme.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory licensed a suite of cryogenic pellet fueling technologies to Type One Energy to advance high-performance fusion plasma operations.

Focused Energy became a Premium Partner of Bundesliga-affiliated football club SV Darmstadt 98 for the 2026/27 season, which the company frames as reinforcing its commitment to the Darmstadt and Biblis region where its German operations and planned fusion plant are located.

SHINE and newcleo, a developer of advanced reactors and fuel, announced an agreement to collaborate on recycling used nuclear fuel. The companies will assess how SHINE could supply newcleo with material recovered from conventional reactor spent fuel to manufacture MOX fuel, and how SHINE could recycle spent fuel from newcleo's own lead-cooled fast reactors. They also intend to jointly pursue US federal funding and explore collaboration across the US and EU. SHINE reiterated it is targeting a commercial pilot facility capable of processing 100 metric tons of used fuel per year in the early 2030s. The agreement is framed as an assessment and joint-pursuit arrangement; no binding supply volumes or financial terms were disclosed.

SHINE said it has joined an EPRI-led consortium funded under ARPA-E's CURIE program to help build MARIE (Model for the Assessment of Reprocessing and Recycle with Innovative Execution), an optimisation tool the company describes as what the US nuclear industry could use to evaluate and underwrite the first commercial used-fuel recycling facilities. SHINE was added through a plus-up to the original award; the company states the contract is signed and work is underway. Its scope covers safeguards-by-design (translating its Chrysalis licensing experience into recycling-facility design), mapping what drives licensing costs for a US recycling facility, and assessing markets for valuable isotopes recoverable from used fuel. Two of the resulting reports are to be published publicly by EPRI. The release carries ARPA-E award number DE-AR0001689. No dollar value for SHINE's share was disclosed.

On 20 May 2026 Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and CFS signed a five-year collaborative research agreement covering technologies for CFS's ARC commercial power plants, with work spanning advanced materials, precision manufacturing, materials testing and plasma diagnostics. The agreement builds on an earlier A*STAR–CFS–ST Engineering collaboration that produced components for the SPARC demonstration machine. A*STAR framed it as positioning Singapore as an early entrant in the global fusion supply chain; no financial terms were disclosed.