New Breakthrough Could Speed Up Nuclear Fusion Development

Scientists and engineers have announced a record-breaking achievement of sustained fusion, which researchers say demonstrates the potential of nuclear fusion power plant designs. Although nuclear fusion has been long recognized as totally carbon- and by-product-free and the source atoms in hydrogen are abundant on Earth, replicating the Sun's natural processes of fusion energy generation on Earth has been a challenge.

That's because this fusion needs to take place at extremely high temperatures that create hot plasma and because researchers have…