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Nuclear Fusion: Global Investment Increases, But Challenges Remain In Race For Commercialisation

By NucNet Staff Writer
13 March 2025

Private sector is throwing its weight behind the new technology, but must have access to government funding programmes

Nuclear Fusion: Global Investment Increases, But Challenges Remain In Race For Commercialisation
To achieve fusion on Earth, scientists heat the fuel to millions of degrees, creating a plasma in which these atoms can collide and fuse. Courtesy LLNL.
Fusion energy has long been touted as the future of clean power. By replicating on Earth the processes that energise the stars, including our own Sun, fusion offers the promise of a virtually limitless, carbon-free energy source.

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