Unraveling the Nuclear Fusion Confusion

A worker walks by the ITER poloidal field coil #5 designed to shape plasma and meant for the assembly of the ITER tokamak in Saint-Paul-Lez-Durance, France, on July 28, 2020. AP Photo/Daniel Cole

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Major shifts have been taking place in the race to commercialize nuclear fusion, but one high school senior has shaken the fusion world by building a nuclear fusion reactor as a high school science project.