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The efforts of physicist Ratu Mataira to deliver almost limit less energy through nuclear fusion have been recognised by Victoria University in Wellington in its Distinguished Alumni awards for the brightest and boldest innovators.
Dr Mataira, Ngāti Porou and Ngāti Kahungunu, completed his PhD in Applied Superconductivity at the Victoria's Robinson Research Institute at bit over three years ago.
He leads OpenStar Technologies a Wellington-based start-up working with nuclear fusion - as opposed to nuclear fission - in an attempt to capture a source of almost limitless clean energy.
Multi-national groups have been trying to achieve this same goal for decades, but with massive teams and enormous budgets.
