Commonwealth Fusion Systems just picked its first commercial site partly because of its proximity to Washington, D.C. | TechCrunch

"For our first power plant, it was important for us to put power onto the grid," Kristen Cullen, CFS's vice president of global policy and public affairs, told TechCrunch.

"Lots of sites would have worked for this," Cullen said. "We looked at sites at the global level, really focusing in on the U.S. following a unanimous decision by the [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] to regulate fusion in a way that we felt was appropriate for the industry."

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