Can Nuclear Fusion Reactors Save The World?
The podcast episode explores the science, challenges, and global significance of nuclear fusion, focusing on the ITER (Eider) project in France—a $50 billion international effort to build a thermonuclear reactor capable of producing clean, abundant energy. While fusion promises nearly lim
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