Arlington lands a global HQ while Richmond nets 2,000 jobs.

EDITOR'S VIEW

An issue full of global connections reminds us to maintain ours.

EASTERN EUROPE

KPMG’s Andrii Tymoshenko and André Guedel offer Site Selection readers their exclusive insights into several sectors poised to be central to Ukraine’s rebound and reconstruction, including the life sciences.

San Bernardino County lays out a roadmap for the movement of commerce.

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We take a look at some of the approximately two dozen critical mineral projects worldwide that are in the portfolio of the 13-nation Minerals Security Partnership, established “to accelerate the development of diverse and sustainable critical minerals supply chains” behind the clean energy revolution.

Micron’s multi-billion-dollar expansion plans in Boise and New York both involve state-of-the-art child-care facilities. The CHIPS and Science Act requires it, and so does the workforce.

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A team at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center lowers the magnet into the cryostat container.

Photo by Gretchen Ertl courtesy of MIT

“Now fusion has a chance,” Hitachi America Professor of Engineering Dennis Whyte says in a release from MIT this week after a collection of papers from MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) was published describing the successful testing and data collection from a magnet (pictured) made from high-temperature superconducting material that achieved a world-record magnetic field strength of 20 tesla for a large-scale magnet. “That’s the intensity needed to build a fusion power plant that is expected to produce a net output of power and potentially usher in an era of virtually limitless power production,” MIT stated. The analysis shows that plans for a new generation of fusion devices — the one designed by MIT and MIT spinout company Commonwealth Fusion Systems, as well as similar designs by other commercial fusion companies — “are built on a solid foundation in science.” Prof. Whyte, who recently stepped down as director of the PSFC, said the testing was “the most important thing, in my opinion, in the last 30 years of fusion research.”

Site Selection has looked in on nuclear fusion progress intermittently over the years, including this 2007 piece about the international thermonuclear fusion reactor (ITER) project in Cadarache, France, the 35-nation fusion collaboration that on April 13 will host a public open house at its construction site in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance.

Photo courtesy of Montgomery Whitewater

Business Alabama’s annual awards luncheon last week recognized Montgomery Water Park as Project of the Year. The 120-acre attraction, which opened last July, “simulates a natural river with class II-IV rapids to accommodate beginners, seasoned whitewater enthusiasts or professional athletes for a variety of whitewater activities including rafting, kayaking and stand-up paddle-boarding,” says a release from the park and Montgomery County. Developed and operated by Southern Whitewater Design Group for the Montgomery County Community Cooperative Group, the park was “conceived and developed as a large-scale public-private investment to catalyze economic growth and provide health-focused recreation and employment opportunities.”