Following a months-long search for a new $1 billion nuclear fusion site, Fremont-based energy startup company Pacific Fusion announced the winner is Albuquerque, New Mexico, which beat out Bay Area bids from both Livermore and Alameda.

Pacific Fusion’s mission is to be using fusion – the process of smashing two atoms together to produce energy – as a renewable energy source by 2030. Fusion, the same process which powers the sun, is the opposition of nuclear fission, which is the process of splitting an atom to generate energy.

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“Commercializing fusion energy will require the best talent from both states,” Keith LeChien, Pacific Fusion’s co-founder and chief technology officer, said in a statement Monday. “California and New Mexico will share in that success as we continu

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