IN A last-ditch bid to realise the 50-year-old dream of making limitless
electricity from the same reactions that power the Sun, physicists last week
presented their final cut-down design for a nuclear fusion reactor. They warn
that unless governments now find the 3.5 billion euros (£2 billion) needed
to build the reactor, the dream will die.
The international fusion project has been in limbo for two years, ever since
funding governments balked at the original price tag of 7 billion euros.
Researchers have since drastically scaled down their ambitions. Speaking at a
fusion conference organised by the International Atomic Energy…
