Nuclear Fusion IX: A Sun of Our Own

In 1958, to great fanfare, the ZETA experiment at Harwell
announced that they had achieved thermonuclear reactions,
controlled in the lab. It was considered a huge breakthrough
along the road towards nuclear fusion, and tabloids at the time
trumpeted the experiment as allowing "limitless energy from sea
water", and called it "Britain's Sputnik". But not everyone was
convinced. 


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