Jeff Bezos-Backed Company To Build Fusion Plant In UK

Canadian General Fusion, a company backed by Amazon, is set to build a demonstration nuclear fusion reactor in Oxfordshire, the BBC reports, adding the facility will be 70 percent the size of a commercial reactor. The news comes a couple of weeks after the UK government said it would start work to create a regulatory framework for supporting research and development of nuclear fusion technology to enable the delivery of clean and safe energy. Nuclear fusion has been garnering growing attention amid government efforts to pursue an energy transition…