Uploaded August 2018 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Fusion energy powers the sun and other stars and scientists are looking for ways to replicate it on Earth. Fusion could give us huge amounts of clean, reliable and unlimited energy while creating much less radioactive waste than nuclear fission.

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