Kirtley称大规模建设聚变电站需要加速半导体技术，联邦奖励加私人投资将使Helion在美国本土研发制造先进半导体。
要大规模建设聚变电站，我们必须加快半导体等关键技术的发展，这些技术对实现聚变至关重要。这笔奖励加上额外的私人投资（总计2.25亿美元），将使Helion能够在美国本土开发和制造满足我们系统所需效率、可靠性和性能的先进半导体。原文 (en)
Building fusion power plants at scale requires us to accelerate the development of technologies like semiconductors that are critical to making fusion possible. This award combined with additional private investment, totaling $225 million, will allow Helion to develop and manufacture advanced semiconductors here in the United States that deliver the efficiency, reliability, and performance our systems require.