Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago

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Supported by Inertia

Winning “first light” won’t win the market if others out-manufacture and out-finance you. Will leadership belong to the first to build reactors, or to those who can build large-scale industries around magnets, components and services? What lessons can the fusion industry learn from the development of supply chains for other innovative technologies?

Moderator: Oliver Morton, senior briefings editor, The Economist
Jeff Lawson, chief executive and co-founder, Inertia