The Race for Nuclear Fusion

This documentary charts the race for nuclear fusion, the quest to harness the process that powers the stars as a clean and limitless source of energy. It follows the scientists and engineers wrestling with temperatures and pressures that push the limits of what is possible. Along the way it explains why fusion is so tantalising and so stubbornly hard to achieve. Ambitious and clear, it makes one of the great technological challenges of our age genuinely gripping. Free to watch in HD on Dr Documentary.

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