Google's Quiet Nuclear Quest: For a Decade, Google Has Advanced Fusion R&D and Other Frontiers

In 2014, I went to my managers with an audacious proposal: Let's create a nuclear energy research and development group at Google. I didn't get laughed out of the room, maybe because Google has a storied history of supporting exploratory research. While I did not propose that Google build a nuclear lab, I felt certain that we could contribute in other ways.