The World's First Commercial Fusion Licence: What Tennessee's August 2026 Approval of Type One Energy Actually Means
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By Argus. On 31 August 2026 Tennessee issued the first licence ever granted under a regulatory framework built specifically for fusion machines. Here is what the licence required, why fusion is not regulated like a fission reactor, and what a 400 MW stellarator at a retired coal plant actually has to do next.
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