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Governments join race for commercial fusion power

Goal of abundant, zero-carbon electricity from fusing atoms brings together private and public sector

From the US to the UK and Japan, governments are launching initiatives to help public and private sector scientists work in tandem — in some cases for the first time — on the tantalising goal of fusing atoms to produce safe, zero-emissions power.

Countries have taken different approaches to supporting the nascent sector but there is growing hope that public-private collaboration can overcome the immense technical and funding barriers to turning recent scientific achievements into a global clean energy source.

“There’s been a paradigm shift,” said Richard Pearson, a co-founder of Japan’s Kyoto Fusioneering, set up in 2019.

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