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Why nuclear fusion is gaining steam – again

  • Written by Scott L. Montgomery, Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington
Why nuclear fusion is gaining steam – againThe coils winding facility building in France, where a global effort to build the ITER fusion energy reactor is underwayRob Crandall/Shutterstock.com

Back when I studied geology in grad school, the long-term future of energy had a single name: nuclear fusion. It was the 1970s. The physicists I studied with predicted that tapping this clean new...

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