Developments from late 2020 onwards have led to talk of a "new space race" with multiple entrants, pitting the US against China and the UK's STEP FPP, with China now outspending the US and threatening to leapfrog US technology. On 24 September 2020, the United States House of Representatives approved a research and commercialization program. The Fusion Energy Research section incorporated a milestone-based, cost-sharing, public-private partnership program modeled on NASA's COTS program, which launched the commercial space industry. In February 2021, the National Academies published Bringing Fusion to the U.S. Grid, recommending a market-driven, cost-sharing plant for 2035–2040, and the launch of the Congressional Bipartisan Fusion Caucus followed.
Developments from late 2020 onwards have led to talk of a "new space race" with multiple entrants pitting the US against China and the UK's STEP FPP with China now outspending the US and threatening to leapfrog US technology On 24 September 2020 the United States House of Representatives approved a research and commercialization program The Fusion Energy Research section incorporated a milestone-based cost-sharing public-private partnership program modeled on NASA's COTS program which launched the commercial space industry In February 2021 the National Academies published Bringing Fusion to the US Grid recommending a market-driven cost-sharing plant for 2035–2040 and the launch of the Congressional Bipartisan Fusion Caucus followed