American Fusion, which trades on the OTCQB under the ticker AMFN, has obtained an occupancy permit for its new headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas. The site will house engineering, assembly and research for the Texatron, its compact pulsed fusion system. The company expects to begin moving in by November 1.
The company’s October 22 press release lists several other milestones. American Fusion is preparing proposals for at least four new data center projects in Texas, where it is seeking first customers for the platform. It is also working to close the purchase of a parcel of land in North Texas, intended to become a permanent campus for research and testing, with laboratories and diagnostic facilities. On the financing side, talks with institutional investors are under way, and the company has begun engaging an independent auditor.
The headquarters gives the technical team a dedicated space to build, modify and improve systems and research equipment. Brandenburg, the company’s chief technology officer and the inventor of the Texatron, describes it as the program’s stable operational base. Until July, the company had been working out of a temporary engineering facility in the same area.
The Texatron is designed for future commercial power generation. The planned fuel is a mix of deuterium and helium-3, with a direct-conversion approach that aims to draw electricity from the charged products of fusion. The patents filed cover hollow toroidal confinement chambers, fuel injection systems and integrated electromagnetic coils. The program outlines two sizes: a 500 kW unit and a 5 MW pre-production version.
Testing is the most delicate part. An initial series of laboratory trials validated the engineering subsystems and ran the platform on non-radioactive fuel. Bunker tests at Texas Tech University have restarted from an early phase, and the company is preparing to resume them. The company states that the platform has not yet demonstrated fusion ignition, net energy gain or commercial electricity production.
The target market is data centers, which in Texas demand large amounts of electricity and are looking for firm, continuous power sources. A modular system of a few megawatts would fit that demand, if testing confirms the stated performance. Moving from prototype to product will require repeatable laboratory results and adequate funding.
Three milestones matter in the coming months: the move into the new headquarters, the closing of the land purchase and the resumption of testing at Texas Tech. If experimental data materialize, the data center proposals could turn into supply agreements.
