Fusion power startup Zap Energy pulls a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix

TechCrunch | 30.04.2026 03:53
Nobody said building a fusion power plant would be easy. Physicists and engineers have been working for decades to crack the problem. But over the last year or so, fusion startup Zap Energy took a deeper look at its pathway to a working power plant and decided that it would be quicker to build a fission power plant first.