From Rockets to Fusion: The Journey of a Dragon Mother

Darby Dunn, former Vice President of Operations at SpaceX, left her job building rockets to work on making nuclear fusion a reality at Commonwealth Fusion Systems. Dunn believes that fusion energy is the most energy-dense reaction in our solar system and could provide virtually unlimited clean energy. Commonwealth Fusion Systems aims to build 10,000 fusion power plants around the world by 2050 and has raised over $2 billion from investors including Bill Gates and Google. The company is currently building its SPARC tokamak to demonstrate net energy and plans to turn it on in 2025. Dunn is leading her team to develop manufacturing processes that can eventually scale to a process that looks like an automotive assembly line.