Fusion power plants could provide zero-carbon electricity that runs day and night, without care for wind or weather, and the drawbacks of today’s nuclear fission plants, says Tammy Ma, the Lead for the Inertial Fusion Energy (IFE) Initiative at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

It was Australian Sir Mark Oliphant who discovered fusion in 1934. As research and investments in the field advance, fusion might be at the forefront of becoming the dominant energy source – by the end of the century.