""To have one bureau increasing funding while another is cutting is no way to beat China to commercial fusion," Holland said."
""I personally take our combination of capital, venture capital and investments from the private sector, along with government spending ...versus that pure government spend in China any day of the week," Prochaska told Axios in an interview Tuesday."
The Energy Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) is committing $135 million over 18 months to advance fusion energy technologies. This investment is the largest in ARPA-E's history and aims to address technical challenges preventing fusion from achieving commercial viability. Federal support is crucial for fusion's development, especially as major tech companies seek carbon-free energy sources. However, proposed budget cuts to fusion initiatives raise concerns about the U.S. competing with China's significant investment in fusion energy.
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