{"id":22155,"date":"2026-06-21T09:25:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-start-up-tackles-fusion-energy-software-bottleneck-with-help-of-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T09:25:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T09:25:17","slug":"chinese-start-up-tackles-fusion-energy-software-bottleneck-with-help-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-start-up-tackles-fusion-energy-software-bottleneck-with-help-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese start-up tackles fusion energy software bottleneck with help of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">For decades, fusion energy has sat at the edge of humanity&rsquo;s clean-energy imagination &ndash; a promise of virtually limitless power that always seems just out of reach. But for Xie Huasheng, a fusion theorist and plasma simulation scientist, the industry finally has a tangible way to shorten its costly trial-and-error cycle: better software.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">&ldquo;Fusion simulation software has long faced an &lsquo;impossible triangle&rsquo;,&rdquo; Xie said. Existing tools, he argued, tend to be either accurate but computationally expensive, fast but unreliable, or simple in principle but too crude to allow accurate extrapolation and guide next-generation reactor design.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">&ldquo;We are now at a turning point,&rdquo; Xie said, noting that the performance of more than a dozen physics design and analysis models had improved sharply, driven by refined mathematical structures and advances in artificial intelligence that improved research efficiency.<\/p>\n<div data-qa=\"InlineAdSlot-Container\" class=\"css-zl1inp e11v3ui14\">\n<div class=\"e11v3ui10 e11v3ui13 css-1umbx1w e1flwkbl0\" data-qa=\"AdSlot-Container\">\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">In April, Xie founded VeloAlpha, a Beijing-based start-up building &ldquo;FusionAlpha&rdquo; &ndash; a simulator designed to help developers test reactor designs on computers before committing to expensive physical experiments.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He likened it to electronic design automation (EDA) software in the semiconductor industry, where chipmakers test and optimise designs long before they go to the wafer foundry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-inline-container e1a5rv550 css-1llrc1m e1yqhwb40\" data-qa=\"Component-renderMap-StyledDiv\">\n<div class=\"image-inline caption e1fvabeq0 css-19sk4h4 ea9pn0s0\" data-qa=\"Component-Container\">\n<figure class=\"image-inline caption ea9pn0s1 css-1qeofuq e1gf69pb0\" data-qa=\"ArticleImage-ArticleImageContainer\">\n<div data-qa=\"ArticleImage-handleRenderImage-ImageContainer\" class=\"css-bjn8wh e1gf69pb3\"><\/div><figcaption data-qa=\"ArticleImage-DescriptionContainer\" class=\"css-1bj5zno e1gf69pb1\">VeloAlpha founder Xie Huasheng has spent much of his career developing mathematical and software tools for modelling fusion plasma. Photo: Handout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Fusion is the reaction that powers the sun, releasing massive amounts of energy when nuclei of light atoms are forced to collide and merge. To recreate this cosmic process on Earth, scientists have to heat fuel until it becomes an extremely hot, electrically charged gas called plasma, and hold it stable long enough for the reaction to keep going.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Chinese start-up tackles fusion energy software bottleneck with help of AI<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, fusion energy has sat at the edge of humanity&rsquo;s clean-energy imagination &ndash; a promise of virtually limitless power that always seems just out of reach. But for Xie Huasheng, a fusion theorist and plasma simulation scientist, the industry finally has a tangible way to shorten its costly trial-and-error cycle: better software. &ldquo;Fusion simulation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/chinese-start-up-tackles-fusion-energy-software-bottleneck-with-help-of-ai\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Chinese start-up tackles fusion energy software bottleneck with help of AI&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}