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Since Soviet scientists first created nuclear fusion technology, experts have been racing to develop nuclear fusion technology for nearly 60 years. The technology has been pushed to produce cheap, clean energy by recreating the fusion process that takes place inside the sun. Private companies are eager to develop this technology as soon as possible to commercialize years of public research and connect fusion power generation to the grid by 2030.

One of these companies is the British Tokamak Energy Company.

Tokamak Energy is conducting nuclear fusion experiments in an industrial area in Didcot, outside of Oxford, in an attempt to create a temperature hotter than the sun.

Nuclear fusion works by forcing hydrogen atoms to fuse, resulting in helium and a lot of energy.

But it turns out that it is difficult for scientists to build a viable commercial reactor to perform this function.

Fortunately, a lot of private investment has poured into companies like Tokamak Energy, which has made tremendous progress in manufacturing the high temperatures required for nuclear fusion.

The company has built a machine that can create the hottest place in the solar system and send 140,000 amperes of electricity into a hydrogen cloud, bringing its temperature to 50 million degrees Celsius.

But the next step in the process involves generating more energy than invested.

Tokamak Energy CEO Chris Kelsall said that this looks likely to be resolved.

He told BBC News: "It's not a question of whether or not. When is it a question."

"We will crack it, and the answer is when we speak, Mother Nature is there.

"All we have to do is find the key and open the solution safe, and it will be found."

Dr. Hannah Willlett, a physicist at Tokamak Energy, explained why finding this answer is so important.

She told BBC News: "It's cleaner and more efficient.

"Compared to burning fossil fuels, you get much more energy from this reaction."

In fact, scientists estimate that only one cup of fuel produced by this process has the energy potential of 1 million gallons of oil and can generate up to 9 million kilowatt-hours of electricity, depending on the method of fusion.

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According to scientists, this is enough to power a home for more than 800 years.

The CEO of the Fusion Industry Association, Andrew Holland, counted the number of private companies in the industry worldwide, of which there are 35.

He said that it is only a matter of time before we see nuclear fusion at work.

He told the Financial Times: "Integration is coming soon, and the speed is faster than you expected."

Bob Mumgaard, CEO of Commonwealth Fusion Systems, compared the breakthrough in nuclear fusion with the evolution of computing.

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He told the Financial Times: "The computer occupies the entire room when there is a vacuum tube.

"Then when they have transistors, you can make computers smaller. Suddenly, people who are not computers can also be computers."

"If you think about what it takes for the entire world to live the way people deserve and have a habitable planet, fusion has many really desirable attributes."

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