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MIT-Linked Company Says It Will Build 'World's First Grid-Scale' Nuclear Fusion Power Plant

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Nuclear fusion is a notoriously difficult process that involves fusing together two light atomic nuclei into a single heavier one, resulting in the release of a massive amount of energy.

The reaction that nuclear fusion generates is the same kind of reaction that powers the sun.

In 2022 , scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California reached nuclear fusion “ignition” for the first time.