Starpower: Boost in quest for nuclear fusion

Starpower: Boost in quest for nuclear fusion
Paris (AFP) Feb 12, 2014 - Scientists on Wednesday announced an important advance in the long quest to harness nuclear fusion, a field that has sparked dreams of clean and limitless energy. Fusion, the process that powers the Sun and other stars, entails forging the nuclei of atoms to release energy, as opposed to splitting them, which is fission - the principle behind the atomic bomb and nuclear power. Decades o ... morehttp://www.energy-daily.com/reports/Starpower_Boost_in_quest_for_nuclear_fusion_999.html