Fusion Could Save the World

Science can’t be rushed, but fusion’s true believers think capturing the sun in a bottle could light humanity’s future.by Vivian McCallThe word “nuclear” conjures two images: A family and a mushroom cloud. Or for some, two trumpeting columns coughing clouds over Springfield, Homer Simpson unaware of the glowing green rod that’s slipped into his jumpsuit. It does not conjure whatever the hell I was looking at in the basement of the Aerospace & Engineering R