New TechnologiesMIT scientists say fusion overcoming energy challenges Posted on June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 by Administrator By Duggan Flanakin the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2018, was announcing that its mission to build a compact fusion power plant (the SPARC) based on the ARC tokamak design was nearing completion, a team of engineers from ETH Zurich (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) were throwing cold water on the idea that fusion power plants (FPPs) can be cost-competitive in future net-zero energy systems.