Transforming fusion from a scientific curiosity into a powerful clean energy source
If you're looking for hard problems, building a nuclear fusion power plant is a pretty good place to start. Fusion - the process that powers the sun - has proven to be a difficult thing to recreate here on Earth despite decades of research. "There's something very attractive to me about the magnitude of the fusion challenge," Hartwig says. "It's probably true of a lot of people at MIT. I'm