Chesterfield County Events & Updates
July 14, 2025
ARC Power plant community meeting
Monday, July 14, 2025, from 6 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Commonwealth Fusion Systems invites interested community members to a meeting to learn about the company’s proposed development of a fusion power plant on property located at 1201 Battery Brooke Parkway in Chesterfield, Virginia.
Meeting information:
Bensley Recreation Center, 2900 Drewrys Bluff Road, North Chesterfield, VA 23237
Doors open at 6 p.m., and a presentation begins at 6:30 p.m.
The property is located in the James River Industrial Center and is zoned I-3, Heavy Industrial. The company has filed a zoning application with Chesterfield County requesting a conditional use permit (CUP) authorizing the fusion power plant. The county’s Comprehensive Plan designates the property as Industrial (County Wide Plan) and Industrial and Economic Development Area (Northern Jefferson Davis Special Area Plan).
Fusion is the process that powers the stars, during which atoms of hydrogen fuse together and release energy. A fusion power plant will harness this process in a compact machine to produce a clean and essentially limitless source of power. It produces no carbon dioxide or other harmful emissions, it generates no long-lived nuclear waste, and it uses no materials like uranium and plutonium as fuel. The ARC fusion power plant in Chesterfield County will lead the transition to this new clean energy source for the world.
We hope you can join us.
April 24, 2025
Come Learn About Fusion Energy
5:45 p.m. - 8 p.m. April 24, 2025
Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) invites you to learn about fusion energy with a Fusion 101 presentation by CFS Director of Tokamak Operations Alex Creely on April 24 at 5:45 p.m at the SpringHill Suites in Chester. The presentation is for the general public and you don't need any science or energy expertise.
Alex leads the team designing the world’s first grid-scale fusion power plant planned for the James River Industrial Center in Chesterfield County, Virginia. He's a scientist and engineer on a mission to bring clean fusion energy to the world, with a PhD in applied plasma physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Princeton. Alex has worked on fusion projects around the world and will share his knowledge, experience, and optimism about a future with fusion energy.
After the talk we'll host an open Q&A with Alex and other members of the CFS Team, including Jessica Strunkin, Community Relations & Local Government Affairs Principal, and Ben Byboth, Director of Power Business Development & Strategy.
We encourage you to RSVP below and hope that you can join us!
Reservations are now closed