Energy startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems has announced that it will begin construction of the "world's first grid-scale" nuclear fusion power plant near Richmond, Virginia. The MIT spinout announced that it was "one step closer" to making fusion energy — fusing atoms together inside a reactor,

The fusion power plant would go live in the next decade and produce 400 megawatts of electricity, says Commonwealth Fusion Systems

Commonwealth Fusion Systems pun out of a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's research labs.