TAE Technologies Stock (TATE)

• There are numerous technological challenges that all companies in this space, including TAE, have to address in order to be commercially viable. Given its choice of feedstock, one challenge for TAE is achieving temperatures that can sustain the fusion reaction for a long period of time. 
• The costs to build the infrastructure around nuclear fusion could weigh on prospects for the company. The Asia-Pacific Economics Blog indicates that “it may only cost $0.03 per kilowatt hour to create energy from nuclear fusion, but that doesn’t take into account the construction costs necessary to create the utility infrastructure that would be required. The investment necessary would be in the trillions of dollars if looked at on a global scale...”
• There are still environmental and regulatory concerns with nuclear fusion reactors and energy. Per the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, “in fact, these neutron streams lead directly to four regrettable problems with nuclear energy: radiation damage to structures; radioactive waste; the need for biological shielding; and the potential for the production of weapons-grade plutonium 239—thus adding to the threat of nuclear weapons proliferation, not lessening it, as fusion proponents would have it.”