“Israeli company aims to build a compact nuclear fusion reactor in a shipping container”

Researchers at the Israeli company NT-Tao, like dozens of other companies, want to build a commercial nuclear fusion reactor. But it won’t look like the typical experimental machines, which are often bigger than a house. NT-Tao wants to build a reactor small enough to fit in a shipping container.

The essence: The company wants to combine the two most popular nuclear fusion reactor designs – the tokamak and the stellarator – to build a ‘sun in a box’. O