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Hot fusion

01 Oct 2010

Despite more than 50 years of effort, today's nuclear-fusion reactors still require more power to run than they can produce. Steve Cowley says the next step is to get the fusion plasma to generate its own heat – to make itself hotter than the centre of the Sun

Hot fusion
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