USA wollen Fusionsenergie trotz langsamer Fortschritte beschleunigen – Energieministerium stellt weitere 180 Millionen Dollar für Fusionsforschung bereit

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>The US Energy Department announced $180 million to support fusion research at an event in Washington Thursday. That’s paired with plans to develop a public-private consortium framework that would boost federal efforts by tapping funding from state and local governments, philanthropists and private industry, according to a statement.

>President Joe Biden aims to develop commercial fusion systems within a decade. But recreating the process that powers stars is an enormous challenge, and progress has been slow. The new efforts come as the Energy Department recognizes that the current pace of advances is not on track to meet Biden’s timeline.

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>“The vision is very simple,” Mickey Wade, associate laboratory director for fusion and fission energy at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, said at Thursday’s event. “We’ve got to move an idea to deployment. So far, this has just been a program about idea