Nuclear fusion is one step closer to bringing clean power to the world. It's been decades in the making, with many brilliant engineers working on the technology and production as well as billions of dollars invested, and the plans may finally be coming to fruition. 

The world is desperate for a clean, abundant source of energy that can replace fossil fuels as an always-available baseload power: nuclear fusion promises to be just that.

According to this CNN article, “The world’s first grid-scale nuclear fusion power plant announced in the US” is being manufactured by Commonwealth Fusion Systems in Devens, Massachusetts (just 11 miles from Intertek's Boxborough, MA laboratory). It will ultimately be installed near Richmond, Virginia and generate enough clean energy to power around 150,000 homes.

Fusion is near limitless, produces no planet-heating pollution and unlike fission, the nuclear technology the world currently uses, it leaves no legacy of long-term nuclear waste. But taking it from research projects in labs around the world to commercial use has proved fiendishly difficult. A common joke in the industry is that, for decades, fusion has been just decades away.