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Nuclear data underpin the design and analysis of fusion systems. Nuclear analyses provide key performance metrics — tritium production, heat deposition, material irradiation, and radiation distributions — through simulations based on fusion-relevant nuclear data, including neutron transport, activation, and displacement cross sections, and gas production data. This talk offers a review of existing nuclear and experimental data for fusion applications, focusing on the critical cross sections governing tritium production, neutron multiplication, material damage, and gas production, as well as dosimetry data for detectors of key elements and materials. Drawing on current fusion-specific libraries (e.g., FENDL-3.2, JEFF-4, TENDL-2025) and additional recommended nuclear data, we identify remaining nuclear data development needs and experimental needs and discuss the potential of time-of-flight (TOF) facilities to deliver the high-quality data, which is required to support the coming decade of fusion development.