A Canadian start-up, backed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is aiming to demonstrate the UK’s first nuclear fusion plant as early as 2025, in a promising sign for an industry, which has always been ’20-years away.’ General Fusion’s $400 million fusion demonstration plant is being planned for construction near the UK Atomic Energy Authority’s (UKAEA) Culham Centre for Fusion Energy in Oxfordshire – a fusion-science hub home to the Joint European Torus (JET), which is expected to have a large opening of workload capacity once testing starts at the $22 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in the next four years. While the ITER project is aiming to establish nuclear fusion technology for reactors of over 1,000 MW each, General…