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Can We Make a Star on Earth?

Professor Brian Cox takes a global journey in search of the energy source of the future. Called nuclear fusion, it is the process that fuels the sun and every other star in the universe. Yet despite over five decades of effort, scientists have been unable to get even a single watt of fusion electricity onto the grid.

Brian returns to Horizon to find out why. Granted extraordinary access to the biggest and most ambitious fusion experiments on the planet, Brian travels to the USA to see a high security fusion bomb testing facility in action and is given a tour of the world’s most powerful laser.

In South Korea, he clambers inside the reaction chamber of K-Star, the world’s first super-cooled, super-conducting fusion reactor where the fate of future fusion research will be decided.

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  1. Is there an update on this?? Did they manage to make the laser fusion work or not?

  2. do you have links to it not working now

  3. Another superb doc with prof. Cox

  4. Thank you so much for the documentary. I hate megavideo, so here is a link to a youtube playlist:

    http://www.youtube.com/user/TwoMunchuTwo#g/c/BD97C36A4597D41C