Researchers, lawmakers look to turn Wisconsin into the `Silicon Valley` for nuclear energy

STOUGHTON – Researchers and state lawmakers are hoping to turn Wisconsin into the "Silicon Valley" for nuclear technology research and development, ushering in a new era of clean energy generation for the state.

A group of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Realta Fusion, a Madison-based nuclear startup, have developed a fusion device in Stoughton that creates the same kind of reaction that fuels the sun and stars. The process is much different than fission, the nuclear reaction that powers current nuclear reactors and the atomic bomb.

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