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General Atomics sees an end to the long road toward nuclear fusion

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Nuclear fusion is what happens on the sun.

The quest to “put the sun in a bottle’s bottle” has been going on since World War II .

We still don’t have the technology to contain and release fusion energy so it can boil water, run a turbine and generate power.

ITER, a tokamak-powered facility that will be the closest thing the world has seen to a fusion power plant.

China is outspending the United States by a factor of two , says Buttery .

Private sector investment in fusion in the U.S. has increased hugely.

People in the fusion field believe we will have fusion power plants sometime in the 2030s .

Buttery cautions us to know every new energy source has uncertainties.

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