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The old joke about nuclear fusion is that it's always 30 years away. It's a lot closer now. Earlier this week, scientists at the ​​Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory announced they had successfully achieved a nuclear fusion reaction.

Now, that not-everyday breakthrough is setting the stage for a once-in-a-generation funding boom in what once felt like a near-mythic corner of the energy industry.

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