Fusion’s Best Hope Is a 70-Year-Old Materials Scientist Who Doesn’t Care About ‘Impossible’
Shuji Nakamura, the Nobel-winning inventor of the blue LED who defied impossible physics, is now tackling nuclear fusion — not with a massive tokamak, but with the same obsessive, materials-science mindset that upended the lighting industry. His story forces us to ask whether fusion’s real missing ingredient is money — or a single stubborn genius who refuses to believe in dead ends.