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Recently, the hype around nuclear fusion has reached new peaks. Government officials are promising that fusion reactors will be powering the grid within the decade, fusion startups are receiving billions of dollars in funding, and other companies are selling off energy that they haven’t yet produced. Let’s take a look.

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