The Dream of Nuclear Fusion Energy Is Within Reach

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The Dream of Nuclear Fusion Energy Is Within Reach

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Watching "The Man Who Fell To Earth" on Showtime and now this... :lol:

What do they call it on the show?

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The Dream of Nuclear Fusion Energy Is Within Reach
.By Gareth WillmerJune 28, 2022
The Dream of Nuclear Fusion Energy Is Within ReachITER Tokamak Machine and Plant (Photo: Business Wire)
The Sun has fuelled life on Earth for billions of years, creating light and heat through nuclear fusion. Given that incredible power and longevity, it seems there can hardly be a better way to generate energy than by harnessing the same nuclear processes that occur in our own and other stars.

Nuclear fusion reactors aim to replicate this process by fusing hydrogen atoms to create helium, releasing energy in the form of heat. Sustaining this at scale has the potential to produce a safe, clean, almost inexhaustible power source.

The quest began decades ago, but could a long-running joke that nuclear fusion is always 30 years away soon start to look old?

Some hope so, following a major breakthrough during a nuclear-fusion experiment in late 2021. This came at the Joint European Torus (JET) research facility in Oxfordshire, UK, in a giant, doughnut-shaped machine called a tokamak.
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