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With groundbreaking innovation, transformative technology, and multi-year investment, Inertia is committed to commercializing fusion energy in the next decade.\nOur summer interns work on real R&D for 10-12 weeks. You'll own a scoped project with a dedicated mentor, work alongside our scientists and engineers in Livermore, and present your results at an end-of-summer poster session. We match interns to projects based on background and interest.\nWhat you'll get to do\nEach intern gets a project with a defined question and deliverables you can finish in one summer. 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