Writing for The Boston Globe, Hiawatha Bray reports that MIT and Commonwealth Fusion Systems believe they can turn nuclear fusion into a practical energy source. "MIT scientists believe their SPARC design points the way to much smaller and cheaper fusion reactors," explains Bray.
Jeff Tollefson at Nature reports on a new MIT collaboration to develop fusion energy with an approach based on high-temperature superconductors. MIT's Martin Greenwald, deputy director of PSFC, tells Tollefson: “We feel very confident in what [SPARC's] performance would be if we can build the magnets at that scale."