Nuclear Fusion

Business, Washington Post: Business
Wed, 06/26/2019 - 7:27am

Nuclear fusion has been 20 years away for the last six decades, as physicists have long joked. But its allure never went away: the prospect of harnessing the fuel that powers the stars to produce clean, cheap and perhaps limitless electricity. Now climate change is making the quest more urgent than ever.

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