LIVERMORE, CALIFORNIA – Livermore just took a big step toward landing a new nuclear fusion research facility — a roughly $1 billion project proposed by Fremont-based Pacific Fusion.
On Sept. 8, the City Council voted unanimously to approve the project’s land-use entitlements and to authorize an incentives framework designed to make Livermore the company’s preferred site. Pacific Fusion is also weighing locations in Alameda and Albuquerque, so Livermore’s action moves the city to the front of the line.
If Pacific Fusion chooses Livermore, the company would build a 225,500-square-foot research and development building on a 14-acre parcel along West Jack London Boulevard, just west of the Oaks Business Park and south of the municipal airport.
The plan allows a maximum building height of 110 feet to accommodate specialized fusion equipment, plus road widening, a new signalized entrance, and a Class I multiuse trail along the site’s frontage…