Fusion power startup Zap Energy pulls a partial pivot, adding nuclear fission to the mix

Nobody said building a fusion power plant would be easy. Physicists and engineers have been working for decades to crack the problem. But over the last year or so, fusion startup Zap Energy took a deeper look at its pathway to a working power plant and decided that it would be quicker to build a fission power plant first. Wait, what? “Fission and fusion are two sides of the same coin,” Zap’s new CEO Zabrina Johal told TechCrunch. …