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Nuclear fusion hit a milestone thanks to better reactor walls – this engineering advance is building toward reactors of the future

  • Written by David Donovan, Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of Tennessee
Nuclear fusion hit a milestone thanks to better reactor walls – this engineering advance is building toward reactors of the futureMagnetic fusion reactors contain super hot plasma in a donut-shaped container called a tokamak.dani3315/iStock via Getty Images

Scientists at a laboratory in England have shattered the record for the amount of energy produced during a controlled, sustained fusion reaction. The production of 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds at the Joint...

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