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From the outside it looks like an ordinary warehouse. But inside this unassuming building, in Hod Hasharon central Israel, is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the Middle East,
Researchers at NT-Tao have joined an elite group of around 35 private start-ups that are trying to build a commercial fusion reactor.
Nuclear fusion is the reaction that powers our Sun and the other stars in the universe. It's the process of fusing two hydrogen atoms together which produces immense amounts of energy. If it can be harnessed here on Earth, then it promises abundant, cheap and emission-free electricity.
Late last year researchers at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California made a breakthrough. Scientists conducted the first controlled fusion experiment to produce more energy from the reaction than that used by the lasers which sparked it.
Researchers at NT-Tao have joined an elite group of around 35 private start-ups that are trying to build a commercial fusion reactor.
Nuclear fusion is the reaction that powers our Sun and the other stars in the universe. It's the process of fusing two hydrogen atoms together which produces immense amounts of energy. If it can be harnessed here on Earth, then it promises abundant, cheap and emission-free electricity.
Late last year researchers at the US National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California made a breakthrough. Scientists conducted the first controlled fusion experiment to produce more energy from the reaction than that used by the lasers which sparked it.