Meet the Reactors Accelerating Us Toward Fusion Energy

The old joke about fusion is that it is 30 years from becoming a reality -- and that's been the case for the last 50 years or more. It's a joke that may quickly be reaching its sell-by date. And a good thing too. The promise of fusion is near-unlimited energy that produces almost no waste. Traditional nuclear reactors split atoms to create energy. These fission reactors run on processed uranium and leave behind radioactive...