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US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over (www.nature.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

They're saying the NIF wasn't made to be a power plant, just a research facility, so now they have to figure out how to make it sustainable. Also, much more work has gone into tokamak systems, so laser fusion is somewhat behind.

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