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Nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion

Ignition pending

(Courtesy: David Parker/Science Photo Library)
16 Oct 2018
Taken from the October 2018 issue of Physics World, which celebrates 30 years of the world’s best physics magazine.

Reproducing the energy of stars here on Earth could revolutionize how we fuel our lives. But why does fusion energy always seem to be 30 years away? Melanie Windridge investigates

Scientists have been trying to harness nuclear fusion – the energy of the stars – since the 1930

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Melanie Windridge is communications consultant at Tokamak Energy and a visiting academic in the plasma-physics group at Imperial College London, UK, melaniewindridge.co.uk, @m_windridge on Twitter
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