U.K.-based nuclear fusion firm Tokamak Energy says it broke a world record in nuclear fusion by achieving a plasma temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius (180,000,032 degrees Fahrenheit).
This, the company says in a press statement, is "the threshold required for commercial fusion energy."
The company's privately-funded ST40 spherical tokamak was built to test nuclear fusion, the reaction the Sun and stars use to produce energy. Fusion occurs when two atoms smash into one another to form a heavier nucleus, releasing enormous amounts of energy.
For years, companies have been trying to harness this process to provide practically limitless sustainable energy here on Earth. Now, Tokamak Energy says it has brought us one crucial step closer to achieving this goal.
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