Leaping to Nuclear Fusion Conclusions

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Is today’s scientific breakthrough the “holy grail” of clean energy? Adam is joined by the BBC’s science editor, Becky Morelle, who explains what nuclear fusion is, and why today’s news is a big deal. Chris Mason talks us through Rishi Sunak’s immigration plans. And business editor, Simon Jack, joins Newscaster Chana Horn to discuss what impact the current strike action is having in her business and the wider economy. Today’s episode was presented by Adam Fleming and made by Tim Walklate with Rufus Gray, Cordelia Hemming and Benita Barden. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor was Sam Bonham.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
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0:24.0	Hello, do you remember a few weeks ago when Hannah Fry was on newscast?
0:27.9	And we were talking about what was happening to the global population and oh, maybe there's
0:32.0	going to be problems and climate change and everything.
0:33.6	She said, no, I'm optimistic.
0:34.6	And I'm really optimistic because we're going to discover nuclear fusion, which will give
0:38.9	us limitless clean energy for the whole world forever at some point.
0:43.8	And I went, what haven't we been talking about that for decades and decades and it's
0:47.2	never going to happen?
0:48.2	She said, just you wait and see.
0:50.0	Well, I'm glad we waited and we saw because there's been a bit of a breakthrough today.
0:54.8	And we can hear about it from our joint favourite science communicator, our science editor, Rebecca
1:00.2	Morale, who's here.
1:01.2	Hello.
1:02.2	Yeah, thank you.
1:03.2	She's very good, Hannah Fry, actually.
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