'Maturing investor confidence': Nuclear fusion industry sees funding more than double to over $2.5bn

James Murray
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'Maturing investor confidence': Nuclear fusion industry sees funding more than double to over $2.5bn

Latest figures from the Fusion Industry Association show total funding across the sector has increased five-fold since 2021 and is now just shy of $10bn

Could the old joke about fusion power always being 20 years away soon be proven wrong? That is certainly the hope of a growing group of private investors and public funding bodies, which last year pumped...

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