Iter: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly (France/Global) BBC News 29th July 2020

Iter: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly. $23 billion project to make nuclear fusion a reality. The £18.2bn (€20bn; $23.5bn) facility has been under construction in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, southern France.

The sun is a nuclear fusion reactor, albeit a massive star one and on Earth we have only produced nuclear fission which is messy and with fallout and contamination that is deadly to all forms of life. So this 35 country experiment in France is taking another test (after many decades) to make clean nuclear fusion a reality.

Did you know (before now):
1) Nuclear fission is messy/dirty/toxic and could have a half life (to decay) of something like 35,000 years!

2) Nuclear fusion produces almost no waste.

3) Has been an objective of the nuclear industry around the world since the beginning.

4) The total amount of energy uses and produced currently in MWh (megawatt-hour) is this:

8 - 12 hours on Earth: 241,693,523 (MWh) of energy used today.
8 - 12 hours by the sun 1,514,945,380,338 (MWh) of solar energy striking Earth today.

OR its takes about ten seconds of the sun's solar energy hitting us of the same amount f energy we use in one day around the world. So nuclear fusion (if harnessed will change everything and help protect our planet as it certainly needs it from climate change gases we are producing).