Realta Fusion plans to open a nuclear fusion research and development facility in the northern portion of the former Oscar Mayer campus, seen here from Packers Avenue. The device Realta will build there won’t be a functioning power plant but is intended to get the company to the point where it can build one.
JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Realta Fusion CEO Kieran Furlong announces the company’s decision to expand its footprint in Madison alongside Gov. Tony Evers, left, and Sam Rikkers of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, right. Realta conducted a nationwide search for the site of its next facility before settling on the former Oscar Mayer campus on Madison’s East Side.
OWEN ZILIAK, STATE JOURNAL
From left: Dane County Executive Melissa Agard, Gov. Tony Evers and Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway celebrate the announcement by Realta Fusion that it will build an R&D facility in Madison.
Scientist Jay Anderson, seen here in 2024, with the WHAM nuclear fusion research device, which led to breakthroughs in using powerful magnets to harness nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun. Realta Fusion plans to build a much larger device at its R&D facility.
Realta Fusion CEO Kieran Furlong announces the company’s decision to expand its footprint in Madison alongside Gov. Tony Evers, left, and Sam Rikkers of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, right. Realta conducted a nationwide search for the site of its next facility before settling on the former Oscar Mayer campus on Madison’s East Side.
The R&D facility known as the Realta Forge is set to occupy about 250,000 of the 2 million square feet of building space once used by Oscar Mayer, according to the property’s owners, who want to see the site become a tech hub anchored by companies like Realta Fusion.
The former Oscar Mayer campus, along Packers Avenue on Madison’s East Side, has been mostly vacant since the plant closed in 2017. Residential development has picked up in the area in recent years, with The View and The Victoria at Huxley Yards, at left, both opening earlier this year.
From left: Dane County Executive Melissa Agard, Gov. Tony Evers and Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway celebrate the announcement by Realta Fusion that it will build an R&D facility in Madison.
Realta Fusion plans to open a nuclear fusion research and development facility in the northern portion of the former Oscar Mayer campus, seen here from Packers Avenue. The device Realta will build there won’t be a functioning power plant but is intended to get the company to the point where it can build one.
The R&D facility known as the Realta Forge is set to occupy about 250,000 of the 2 million square feet of building space once used by Oscar Mayer, according to the property’s owners, who want to see the site become a tech hub anchored by companies like Realta Fusion.
The former Oscar Mayer campus, along Packers Avenue on Madison’s East Side, has been mostly vacant since the plant closed in 2017. Residential development has picked up in the area in recent years, with The View and The Victoria at Huxley Yards, at left, both opening earlier this year.
Scientist Jay Anderson, seen here in 2024, with the WHAM nuclear fusion research device, which led to breakthroughs in using powerful magnets to harness nuclear fusion, the process that powers the sun. Realta Fusion plans to build a much larger device at its R&D facility.
Realta Fusion CEO Kieran Furlong announces the company’s decision to expand its footprint in Madison alongside Gov. Tony Evers, left, and Sam Rikkers of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, right. Realta conducted a nationwide search for the site of its next facility before settling on the former Oscar Mayer campus on Madison’s East Side.
From left: Dane County Executive Melissa Agard, Gov. Tony Evers and Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway celebrate the announcement by Realta Fusion that it will build an R&D facility in Madison.
Realta Fusion CEO Kieran Furlong announces the company’s decision to expand its footprint in Madison alongside Gov. Tony Evers, left, and Sam Rikkers of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, right. Realta conducted a nationwide search for the site of its next facility before settling on the former Oscar Mayer campus on Madison’s East Side.
From left: Dane County Executive Melissa Agard, Gov. Tony Evers and Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway celebrate the announcement by Realta Fusion that it will build an R&D facility in Madison.
