Manmade mini-star a "fantastic achievement" in quest for unlimited clean energy to tackle climate change
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London — Scientists at a lab in the United Kingdom have made a major breakthrough in creating electricity through nuclear fusion. The development has put them on course, they say, to tapping an unlimited source of clean power — with no greenhouse gas emissions — in a matter of decades.
Nuclear fusion is the opposite of nuclear fission, the technology used today in nuclear power plants around the world. Fission breaks particles apart to create energy. Fusion forces particles together, and can be done, the scientists say, much more safely, with much less radioactive material and much lower risk of accidents.
The scientists haven't yet managed to conduct fusion in a way that produces enough electricity to be the clean power supply they believe it eventually can be, but they say it would be unfair to humanity and the planet not to keep pushing for it.
