Sustainable nuclear fusion power produces clean, virtually limitless energy – won’t arrive in the 2020s. Fusion power poses one of the greatest engineering challenges – building devices to replicate the nuclear reactions that occur in the Sun and the stars and capturing the resulting energy. It involves generating massive temperatures – more than 100 million degrees Celsius, creating the conditions for hydrogen ...

Australia’s quest to decarbonise stepped forward this month with the release of a federal inquiry report looking to bin our ban on nuclear power introduced in the 1990s. The report recognised nuclear energy as a source of clean, low-carbon electricity, and the potential of new and emerging nuclear technologies in Australia if they are delivered alongside community consent and meet ...