Fusion Power.
Bringing the Power of the Sun to EarthGA's scientists and engineers are advancing the frontier toward limitless clean, sustainable, safe, and reliable energy.

DIII-D National Fusion Facility
Clean energy by recreating the sun in a San Diego lab

Target Fabrication
Custom-built and modified equipment used for target fabrication and target handling

Promise of Fusion
Limitless clean, sustainable, safe, and reliable energy.
Centers of Excellence.
Transforming Basic-ResearchTransforming basic-research into applications to enable technology advancements.

Advanced Materials
Nanotechnology and smart materials, terahertz, quantum and hydrogen technologies

Advanced Computing
High Performance Computing, AI, and Quantum Information Technology

Advanced Diagnostics
RF, THz, laser, and radiation diagnostics techniques coupled with multi-physics modeling
Energy Technologies and Services.
World-Changing Potential Across Key TechnologiesGeneral Atomics pioneers advanced technologies with world-changing potential across a comprehensive array of key energy technologies.

Nuclear Technologies and Materials
Advanced reactors and accident tolerant fuel

Superconducting Magnets
State-of-the-art facility for end-to-end design, engineering, and fabrication services for superconducting magnets

GALADRIEL
General Atomics Laboratory for Developing Rep-rated Instrumentation and Experiments with Lasers

RF and Microwave Technology
World leader in high-power microwave technologies, microwave control and transmission

Metrology and Electron Microscopy
The laboratory is capable of characterizing all key properties of the components it delivers

Robotics and Automation
Developing systems for target fabrication, assembly, metrology, and shot diagnostics
Stockpile Stewardship.
Supporting Research in Inertial Confinement FusionHigh energy density physics to achieve a safer, secure, and effective nuclear deterrent without underground testing.

Additive Manufacturing
Ability to create geometries that are difficult to achieve through traditional methods

Coatings
Atomic Layer Deposition, Physical Vapor Deposition, evaporative, and sputter coatings

Aerogels and Foams
Extreme low-density solids, typically formed from gels with the liquid component removed

Laser Micromachining
Ultraviolet Nanosecond, Green Nanosecond, and Green Femtosecond laser workstations