India's First Private Fusion Reactor Firms Up Key Designs
Bengaluru-based startup Pranos Fusion has taken key steps toward India's first privately built tokamak, a nuclear reactor that uses fusion to produce energy. Its designs could be firmed up in 2027, a key next step for the project as the company moves ahead.
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Context: Fusion joins light atoms together to release energy, the same process that powers the sun, and no country has yet run a fusion power plant that sends electricity to the grid. Private firms are joining this race, and India's effort is one example.
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