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What could be the world’s first commercial-scale fusion power plant is moving through the local approval process in Chesterfield County.

The county planning commission this week unanimously voted to recommend approval of a conditional-use permit sought by Commonwealth Fusion Systems for a nuclear fusion facility that would be built at 1201 Battery Brooke Parkway.

The multibillion-dollar facility would be constructed on 25 to 40 acres of an overall 94-acre property owned by Dominion Energy. Commonwealth Fusion has signed a lease option for the site, which is near Chester. The 400-megawatt nuclear fusion plant would be able to generate enough electricity to power the equivalent of about 150,000 homes.

Commonwealth Fusion would own and finance the facil

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