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Two British companies confident of nuclear fusion breakthrough. Both groups have set ambitious goal of delivering working reactor by 2030.
Two small British companies believe they are on the verge of a breakthrough that has eluded scientists for more than 60 years — to deliver clean, cheap energy by harnessing the nuclear fusion reaction that powers the sun.
The failure of sustained attempts to develop fusion power since the 1950s has left the undertaking tainted by claims it is a fool’s errand. But this has not put off investors from backing scientists working on quite different approaches at two private laboratories in Oxfordshire: Tokamak Energy and First Light Fusion.
Both have set the ambitious goal of delivering a working reactor ready for commercialisation by 2030, 10 years earlier than the nearby UK Atomic Energy Authority which runs the state-funded fusion programme.
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