Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion Could Massively Alter Future of Clean Energy | PBS NewsHour

For the first time, scientists have produced a fusion reaction that created more energy than was expended, a breakthrough to tap into the same kind of energy that powers the sun and stars. It could have huge implications for potentially creating clean and limitless energy.

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