Global nuclear fusion project crosses milestone

SINGAPORE: A much-delayed nuclear fusion project involving more than 30 countries is ready to assemble the world’s most powerful magnet — a key part of efforts to generate clean energy by smashing atoms together at super-high temperatures.

The International Thermon­uclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project, based in southern France and backed by the United States, China, Japan, Russia and the European Union, needs the magnetic system to create an “invisible cage” to confine super-hot...