Ignition Achieved in Nuclear Fusion
Daniel Plummer reports on the news that ignition has been achieved in nuclear fusion, and explains what this means for renewable energy.
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Nuclear Fusion: Friend or Foe?
Ivan Tolkachev discusses increasing energy security and decreasing reliance on fossil fuels, and asks if nuclear fusion is the answer to both.
How close are we to fusion power?
By Molly Hammond This article was originally published in The Oxford Scientist Michaelmas Term 2021 edition, Change. Nuclear fusion is supposedly ‘always 30 years away’. It was however first theorised about a hundred years ago. What has changed in a century of research—and are we now, really, only 30 years away? In 1920, Arthur Eddington…