Pietro Barabaschi, Director General of the international nuclear fusion project Iter, holds a press conference at the Project Center ITER in the town of Troitsk outside Moscow on October 7, 2024. Thirty-five nations are collaborating in the ITER energy project aimed at mastering energy production from hydrogen fusion, as in the heart of the sun, a potential new source of carbon-free and non-polluting energy. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP) (Photo by ALEXANDER NEMENOV/AFP via Getty Images)