If the Hadron Collider doesn't whack us all, maybe China's bid for a man-made sun will

The congenial Professor Duan Xuru doesn't look like a stereotypical mad scientist as he shows guests into a cluttered laboratory filled with canisters, vacuum pumps and patched-up pipes tied together with spirals of blue wire and rubber tubing.

But Professor Duan, based in the south-west Chinese city of Chengdu, is working on an audacious project described as a "man-made sun". He hopes it will eventually create almost unlimited supplies of cheap and clean energy.

Professor Duan is no maverick either, but a pioneer in one of the many expeditions that China has launched to map out its nuclear energy options in the future.

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If the Hadron Collider doesn't whack us all, maybe China's bid for a man-made sun will

If the Hadron Collider doesn't whack us all, maybe China's bid for a man-made sun will

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