{"podcast":{"title":"POLITICO Energy","slug":"politico-energy-844843","podcast_index_feed_id":844843,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ASD3100338491","website_url":"https://politico-energy.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b34f0a3a-6477-11ef-9865-47f049e08f61/image/817ea8e79787b6ec20dd0b924cc0d6db.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"POLITICO","episode_count":1565,"summary":"The POLITICO newsroom breaks down the stories and power players shaping energy politics and policy in the United States and around the world by featuring original interviews, along with in-depth reporting and analysis from the largest energy policy newsroom in the world.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-29T18:21:25.095774+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/politico-energy-844843"},"episode":{"title":"Nuclear fusion tries to win over Washington","slug":"nuclear-fusion-tries-to-win-over-washington","published_at":"2026-07-29T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/politico-energy-844843/nuclear-fusion-tries-to-win-over-washington","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/politico-energy-844843","url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL4622631983.mp3","audio_url":"https://traffic.megaphone.fm/POLL4622631983.mp3","summary":"Nuclear fusion holds the promise of almost limitless, carbon-free energy -- but the technology has long been dismissed as always decades away. That may now be changing, though. Real money is pouring into the industry. Pilot projects are planned. An increasing number of lawmakers are warming to the idea. But fusion's supporters said they still need more help from Washington to scale. POLITICO's Joe Schatz lays out the hopes, the obstacles and the political asks of the budding U.S. nuclear fusion industry.","meta_description":"Nuclear fusion holds the promise of almost limitless, carbon-free energy -- but the technology has long been dismissed as always decades away. That may no…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":689,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/politico-energy-844843/episodes/nuclear-fusion-tries-to-win-over-washington/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/politico-energy-844843/nuclear-fusion-tries-to-win-over-washington.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}