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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States and Japan on Wednesday announced a joint partnership to accelerate development and commercialization of nuclear fusion. The partnership was unveiled as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was in Washington for a summit with President Joe Biden. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Energy David Turk and Japan's minister of education, sports, science and technology, Masahito Moriyama, met in Washington on Tuesday to discuss fusion.

The largest fusion reactor in the world fired up in Japan. Here's how it compares to the US's recent breakthrough toward clean, sustainable energy.

Fusion, the process that powers the sun and stars to generate electricity, can be replicated on Earth

Nuclear fusion breakthrough is an enormous milestone for mankind. The sun, which has been burning for over 4.6 billion years, runs on fusion reactions. For decades, scientists have been trying to replicate the process on earth. Researchers have for the first time replicated such conditions on earth, generating more energy from a fusion reaction than the power they used to ignite it.

Scientists studying fusion energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced on Tuesday that they had crossed a major milestone in reproducing the power of the sun in a laboratory. From a report: Scientists for decades have said that fusion, the nuclear reaction that makes sta...