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The First New Nuclear Fusion Idea for Decades

A nuclear fusion startup in New Zealand just published a design for a "levitating dipole" reactor, an approach almost everyone had written off as fundamentally flawed.

The First New Nuclear Fusion Idea for Decades

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A nuclear fusion startup in New Zealand just published a design for a "levitating dipole" reactor, an approach almost everyone had written off as fundamentally flawed.

It's the first new idea in nuclear fusion design for decades.

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A nuclear fusion startup in New Zealand just published a design for a "levitating dipole" reactor, an approach almost everyone had written off as fundamentally flawed. It's the first new idea in nuclear fusion design for decades.

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It's the first new idea in nuclear fusion design for decades.

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