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Welcome to Tech Stuff. This is the story. I'm Osvaloshan here with Kara Price.

Hi, Oz.

Hi, Kara. So this week, I wanted to ask a simple but very big question, which is, can nuclear fusion save the world?

And if so, on what timeline?

Is it ridiculous for me to ask what nuclear fusion is?

I genuinely don't know.

Not at all, actually.

And it's a little confusing because we hear so much about nuclear all the time at the moment,

especially with the new demands for energy from the AI industry.

But people are normally talking about nuclear fission rather than nuclear fusion.

But I'm going to let Alex Creeley explain this, who works at a company called Commonwealth Fusion Systems.

So fusion is the process that powers the stars.

You take small atoms like hydrogen.

You combine them together.

You make bigger atoms like helium.

And that releases like a whole bunch of energy.

So it's a bunch of potential advantages. It's clean.

It's firm. So it turns on when you want it and not when you don't. And hopefully if we can

make it work in a power plant on Earth, it'll change the way the world makes electricity.

So as you were saying, like this is obviously a concept that is different than nuclear fission.

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