Nuclear fusion advances, but challenges remain for power grid

Nuclear fusion advances, but challenges remain for power grid

Nuclear fusion originates in our sun and other stars. Immense pressure and high temperatures in the core create a reaction, ultimately preventing it from collapsing under the force of gravity."The fusion here on Earth has a lot of corollaries to how we understand how the stars work in things like astrophysics," Commonwealth Fusion Systems CEO Bob Mumgaard said."They both rely on studying plasma, the fourth state of matter. They both have the sam…