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| founder = | num_employees = 150 | industry = Nuclear fusion | homepage = }} Tri Alpha Energy, Inc. (TAE) is an American company based in Foothill Ranch, Lake Forest, California, created for the development of aneutronic fusion power. The company was founded in 1998 by plasma physicists Norman Rostoker〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Norman Rostoker )〕 from the University of California, Irvine and Hendrik J. Monkhorst〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hendrik Monkhorst )〕 from the University of Florida, as a University spin-off based on their scientific work about the Colliding Beam Fusion Reactor (CBFR). ==Operation and funding== Tri Alpha Energy is a stealth company: they had no web site for 17 years, didn't answer the phone and didn't generally discuss progress nor any schedule for commercial production.〔 However, they have registered and renew various patents. They regularly publish theoretical and experimental results in academic journals. More recently, they started participating in international scientific conferences and workshops, and as of the end of 2015, an official web site appeared online,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Tri Alpha Energy - The Power of Ingenuity )〕 as well as a corporate video. , TAE is said to have more than 150 employees and raised over $140 million, far more than any other private fusion power research company or the vast majority of federally-funded government laboratory and university fusion programs. Main financing has come from Goldman Sachs and venture capitalists such as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's Vulcan Inc., Rockefeller's Venrock, Richard Kramlich's New Enterprise Associates, and investors such as former NASA software engineer Dale Prouty who succeeded George P. Sealy after his death as company CEO. Actor Harry Hamlin, astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Nobel Prize winner Arno Allan Penzias are among the board members. The Government of Russia, through the joint-stock company Rusnano, invested in Tri Alpha Energy in February 2013, and Anatoly Chubais, Rusnano CEO, became a board member.〔〔〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company Overview of Tri Alpha Energy, Inc. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tri Alpha Energy, Inc.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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