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Podcast: Climate Now
Episode: Building stars on Earth: the potential of nuclear fusion
Description: Is there such a thing as "perfect" energy? With nuclear fusion, the answer is maybe.Fusion energy would be safe to human health, environmentally clean, and essentially limitless. But, developing a sustainable fusion reaction still faces significant engineering hurdles and is likely decades away from becoming a reality.So, where are we in the development of fusion technology? What technical challenges remain? And what practical challenges must be overcome to make fusion a competitive energy source?Sir Steven Cowley, director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and Dr. Aneeqa Khan, Research F...