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With extra government help German firms are attempting to make working fusion reactors.
Last month the German government announced an additional €370m (£320m; $390m) in funding for nuclear fusion research and development. "We want to create a fusion ecosystem with industry, so that a fusion power plant in Germany becomes reality as quickly as possible," said Minister of Research, Bettina Stark-Watzinger. Nuclear fusion is the reaction that powers the sun.
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The complex, officially known as CRAFT, will feature doughnut-shaped vacuum chamber and massive superconducting magnet for fusion experiments, according to Xinhua report.