This 34-year-old’s start-up backed by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos aims to make nearly unlimited clean energy

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Brandon Sorbom, co-founder and chief science officer of MIT spinout Commonwealth Fusion Systems, discusses his energy journey and the role of nuclear fusion in the clean energy transition.

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