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Is nuclear fusion used for nuclear power?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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No, not yet. Maybe in another 20 years when its perfected (which they have been saying every 20 years since they originally began work in the 1950s on lab prototypes of controlled nuclear fusion reactors for power generation).

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