
From a Montana childhood to an aircraft-carrier reactor room, Johal learned that power is never an abstraction. At Zap Energy, her task is to turn that lesson into an unusual business: fission for the near term, fusion for what comes next.

The former diplomat behind Zap Energy has spent his career entering places other people avoid. His fusion wager follows the same rule: simplify the machine, shorten the experiment, and make the economics matter from day one.