Material Science & Supply Chain for the Fusion Industry
Swiss industry combines a historically grown tritium expertise with highly specialized mechanical engineers, unique engineering capabilities and materials-processing know-how. Cluster 3 brings together the mostly smaller, highly specialized companies behind it, offering solutions from a single source with one point of contact.
- Tritium expertise in industrial tritium processing
- Highly specialized suppliers across mechanical engineering, engineering design and materials processing
- One coordinated point of contact instead of a fragmented supplier search
Fuel Cycle Management for the Fusion Industry
Most fusion power plants will run deuterium and tritium in a loop: injecting it, burning it in the plasma, recovering unused gas and newly bred tritium, reprocessing it, and injecting it again. Cluster 3 covers every stage of this cycle with specialized Swiss industry.
Good to know: Cluster 3 can't offer every solution and product itself — but it is networked closely enough that, together with industry and research, it can usually offer an optimal solution. Contact us today.
Deuterium and tritium fuse in the plasma at over 100 million °C — the fusion reaction itself, both the start and end point of the whole fuel cycle.
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Cluster 3 Topics and Solutions
- 6-Li Enrichment Equipment (Custom Process Equipment)
- Inert Gas Glove Boxes
- Beryllium Equipment Engineering
- Beryllium Hot Isostatic Presses, Process development
- Beryllium and its Alloys (Beryllides) Process Development
- Neutron Multiplier (Beryllium, Lead) Equipment Engineering
- Solid (Metal Multiplier, Ceramic Breeder)
- Liquid (Lithium-Lead, Molten Salt FLiBe)
- Struktural Materials and Coatings
- Inert Gas Glove Boxes and H&S (Modular Systems, Container Labs)
Materials We Work With
Most common hydrogen isotope, a reference quantity in the fuel cycle
The second fusion fuel
The actual fusion fuel
Rare isotope, candidate for aneutronic fusion
The feedstock for tritium breeding
Carrier medium for FLiBe coolant loops
Neutron multiplier in the blanket
Blanket shell material
Cluster 3, uniquely specialized knowledge
Cluster 3 connects Swiss research institutions with specialized industry know-how across the entire fuel-cycle value chain.
In the thick of it, or just watching?
Is your company one of the ones advancing Switzerland in the field of nuclear fusion? Do you have specialized expertise, or would you like to position your company in this new and emerging market? Become a member of Cluster 3 and help build the future with us.
Get in touch nowSources: “Fusion Fuel Cluster 3 Präsentation” (smolsys AG / MC&P, 2026); “Fuel Cycle Technology Mapping 2025” (Fusion for Energy / EUROfusion, v2.1, July 2025).