World's first fusion reactor will be open in UK by 2040The UK Government has committed to operationalizing the world's first commercial nuclear fusion reactor by 2040.With a tender anticipated for December, the government started looking for a construction partner for the project in August.For example, a massive facility is being constructed in the South of France with the cooperation of 35 nations.The JET (Joint European Torus) facility in the UK broke its previous record for the amount of energy produced by fusing two types of hydrogen in February of this year.The experiments generated 11 megawatts of electricity (59 megajoules of energy) over five seconds to boil 60 kettles of water."