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Japan's first fusion energy company achieves key milestone towards commercial reactor
Helical Fusion, a Japanese start-up company, announced on Monday that it had completed a crucial performance test of a superconducting coil at high temperatures. This marks a significant milestone in the commercialisation of nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion is the process of smashing together atoms at high temperatures to produce heat, similar to the sun. It could, one day, generate enormous amounts clean energy with minimal radioactive waste compared to the fission reactors we use today. Despite 70 years of global research, there has yet to be a commercially viable fusion reactor. Helical Fusion announced that the HTS coil it tested,...