Nuclear fusion group calls for building a pilot plant by the 2040s


Inside the tokamak at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics in San Diego. — TNS

The main criticism about nuclear fusion has been that its vast potential as a commercial source of energy has always been just out of reach.

But a group of the nation’s top fusion scientists and researchers just issued a report to the Department of Energy that calls for the United States to build a fusion pilot plant by the 2040s.

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