“There's a very good shot to get there [commercial fusion] within less than ten years.”
Deadline is end-2031; as of 2026 no private company has yet demonstrated net electricity from fusion, let alone commercial operation.
Michl Binderbauer
CEO, TAE Technologies
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“Being humble about it, I predict that somewhere around 2025 we'll have this machine [Copernicus] huffing and puffing and producing the data we hoped for.”
Said Aug 13, 2022Deadline Dec 31, 2025New Atlas interview, 'TAE on track for billion-degree hydrogen-boron fusion by early 2030s', August 13, 2022
Copernicus was not operating or producing data by the end of 2025; TAE's 2025 work centered on its reconfigured 'Norm' machine, and its 2026 communications still describe Copernicus as a future device expected to demonstrate net-energy viability later this decade.