• As Xcimer accelerates hiring overall, Denver-based fusion company welcomes Brian Boggs in an all-new role as Head of Strategic Development.

• Boggs, who spent decades in the energy industry, will lead a multistate site search to house Vulcan, the world’s largest and highest-energy laser system, designed to achieve engineering breakeven from laser-inertial fusion. 

• Vulcan is expected to employ hundreds of people in a large variety of jobs, including physicists, technicians, and support staff.

DENVER, Colo. (Oct. 23, 2025) – Xcimer Energy Inc. announced today that energy industry veteran Brian Boggs has joined the leading inertial fusion energy company in an all-new role as Head of Strategic Development. 

Boggs has more than 20 years in business development, sales leadership and supply chain development in the energy industry. He has deep expertise in partnerships required for structuring and execution of complex commercial agreements for mega-construction projects.  

Before joining Xcimer Energy, Boggs led teams focused on investment and commercialization of new small modular reactor technology in the commercial nuclear power industry, including at General Electric and its spinoffs, GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy.

“Always-on, zero-emission fusion energy will unlock industries including artificial intelligence, water desalination, space colonization, and industrial biotech,” said Boggs, who earned an MBA from Wake Forest University and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tennessee. “Joining Xcimer in its first strategic development role means I can directly participate in accelerating the shift to a future of abundance.”

Xcimer is developing what some experts say is the most economically viable path to delivering virtually limitless, carbon-free energy. The company combines the only fusion approach that has been experimentally demonstrated to exceed scientific breakeven (hotspot-ignited laser-inertial  fusion) with a novel laser architecture  that has significantly lower costs than solid-state laser technology such as that used at the NIF. 

Earlier this year, the company completed its first major technical milestone, and the first e-beam-pumped excimer laser built worldwide in 20 years. In May, this system achieved the longest pulse length of any KrF laser.

Xcimer’s goal for 2030 is to complete the construction of Vulcan, its next-generation facility that will achieve the highest laser energy in the world, up to 12 MJ, using the largest laser amplifiers ever built. Vulcan is expected to achieve engineering breakeven from fusion for the first time. Xcimer’s roadmap includes putting the first inertial fusion power plants delivering electricity to the grid as soon as the mid-2030s.

 

In process: Multistate search for Vulcan’s home 

Xcimer is actively seeking prospective new sites nationwide to house Vulcan, which would directly employ physicists, technicians, and support staff. Denver-based Xcimer employs about 100 people in the Denver headquarters; the company also has capacitor production operations in Tucson, Arizona.

With Boggs leading the site search and selection process, the team is considering opportunities in the company’s home state of Colorado, Texas, New Mexico, California, Tennessee and elsewhere.

As the world’s highest-energy laser, Vulcan will be a center of high-tech development around energy, fusion, high-energy science, national security and defense missions. Vulcan’s location could pave the way for a future regional source of zero-carbon energy expertise, making the location attractive to more emerging businesses such as artificial intelligence and software companies, robotics manufacturers, medical research facilities, and their support services. Xcimer expects to narrow the field of prospective sites by the end of 2025.  

Utilities and communities across the country are actively partnering to craft competitive proposals, aiming to win this once-in-a-generation project. Vulcan’s presence is expected to spark a powerful economic ripple effect, driving infrastructure investment, workforce development, and attracting cutting-edge industries.

“Fusion is the last new energy source humanity will ever need, the key to a prosperous future,” said Alexander Valys, Co-Founder and President of Xcimer. “The countries, states and counties that take the lead in the global fusion race will disproportionately reap the benefits.”

 

Fusion: The energy of the sun and stars

Fusion energy occurs when light atoms fuse into heavy atoms, releasing energy in the process. The same process powers the sun to deliver massive amounts of energy with zero carbon emissions and no accident risk. Through this process a single gram of hydrogen isotopes yields the same energy as 11 metric tons of coal.

Xcimer is pioneering the use of high-powered excimer lasers to create an intense pulse of light, focused onto a sphere of fuel the size of a pea, creating extremely high temperature and pressure that initiates fusion reactions. The fusion energy from each burning capsule is captured by a waterfall of molten salt inside the chamber. This carries away the heat to generate steam, which in turn drives turbines to produce electricity through a standard process.

Compared to other fusion companies, Xcimer says it has superior long-term economics due to the decoupled nature of the subsystems, higher fuel burnup fraction, and ability to directly protect the first structural wall with the molten salt flow so that it can last the entire lifetime of a power plant. 

 

About Xcimer Energy Inc.

Xcimer is an inertial fusion company combining novel laser technology with proven science to achieve commercial deployment of fusion energy. Its approach to inertial fusion holds the best prospect for long-term economic viability. Founded in 2022 and based in Denver, Colorado, Xcimer is backed by the world’s leading climate tech investors and has been selected for funding by the U.S. Department of Energy. Its mission is to develop a source of unlimited, clean, safe and reliable energy to power the future. To learn more, visit https://xcimer.energy/. 

 

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