A Futuristic Plan to Make Steel With Nuclear Fusion -- Commodities Roundup

A Futuristic Plan to Make Steel With Nuclear Fusion

America's largest steel company is betting nuclear fusion can help it eliminate carbon emissions and power one of the world's most energy-intensive manufacturing processes.

In a first-of-its-kind partnership between a major industrial company and a fusion startup, Nucor and Helion Energy plan to develop a 500-megawatt fusion power plant that would be placed at one of Nucor's U.S. steel mills by 2030, the companies said.