Will We Have Nuclear Fusion Reactors Within a Decade?

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By Carl Engelking
Oct 16, 2014 11:38 PMNov 20, 2019 5:05 AM
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Lockheed Martin engineers work on a version of the nuclear fusion reactor prototype. (Credit: Screenshot form YouTube)

Lockheed Martin Corp. on Wednesday said its engineers had made a breakthrough in the race to build a nuclear fusion reactor.

The company’s secretive research unit, Skunk Works, claims that within a decade

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