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 SCR-25 Nuclear fusion.(2025-2026)

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SCR25:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Senate Concurrent Resolution

 No. 25

 CHAPTER 161

Relative to nuclear fusion. 

 [
 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 September 02, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SCR 25, Blakespear.
 Nuclear fusion.

This measure would proclaim that the State of California celebrates the numerous contributions of public and private sector nuclear fusion organizations within California for advancing fusion energy research and development, applauds recent scientific advances in magnetic fusion energy and inertial confinement at public research facilities in San Diego and Livermore, recognizes the vast potential of fusion energy for addressing key climate and national security goals and the contributions of California’s private fusion industry, commends the University of California’s Office of the President for its leadership in establishing the Pacific CREST Fusion initiative, and supports developing the fusion energy ecosystem with the goal of siting a first-of-a-kind fusion pilot plant in California by the 2040s.

Digest Key

 Fiscal Committee:
 NO 

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WHEREAS, The global demand for energy is projected to increase by 33 to 75 percent by 2050, which will rely significantly on oil, natural gas, and coal amid population growth, industry growth, and higher living standards; and

WHEREAS, The global energy sector is the primary cause of air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, with coal, oil, and gas supplying more than 80 percent of demand; and

WHEREAS, The 100 Percent Clean Energy Act of 2018 (Chapter 312 of the Statutes of 2018) established a state policy requiring
 renewable energy and zero-carbon resources to supply 100 percent of electric retail sales to end-use customers by
 2045 to help meet the state’s
 climate goals; and

WHEREAS, California Governor Gavin Newsom has laid out a comprehensive roadmap called, “Building the Electricity Grid of the Future: California’s Clean Energy Transition Plan,” demonstrating California’s leadership in responding to climate change and leading the clean energy revolution; and

WHEREAS, Fusion energy holds the potential of nearly limitless clean, safe, and firm energy, without producing air pollution, harmful emissions, or long-lasting nuclear waste; and

WHEREAS, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is expected to publish a draft rule by March 2025 that regulates fusion machines under a different framework than nuclear fission machines, based on the grounds that fusion facilities may not have the potential to cause large radiation doses to workers or the public in accident scenarios and cannot produce “runaway” reactions; and

WHEREAS, California is the United States’ leader in fusion energy research and development, with more than 20,000 jobs throughout the fusion research and development ecosystem; and

WHEREAS, California hosts public sector fusion research and development facilities under the direction of the United States Department of Energy; and

WHEREAS, The tokamak nuclear fusion facility in San Diego is the largest and most productive magnetic fusion energy research facility in the United States, and has made significant advancements in the pursuit of fusion energy, including its 2023–24 two-year research campaign, which successfully achieved a combination of high density and high confinement that had never previously been achieved simultaneously and fulfills a key requirement of fusion energy production; and

WHEREAS, The ignition nuclear fusion facility in Livermore achieved the first controlled fusion ignition in a laboratory setting in December 2022 and has successfully repeated ignition with higher fusion yields at least five times; and

WHEREAS, California companies are the largest share of industry partners for ITER (Latin for “the way”), an unprecedented international collaboration of 35 different nations working to design, construct, and assemble a reactor-scale burning plasma experiment that can demonstrate the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy, and are supplying key components, including the central solenoid, which is the most powerful superconducting electromagnet in the world and w