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

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[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

For several decades it's been 20 years away, and before that 50, so yeah. Progress.

(No /s, I think the money is finally in place to make it happen, and that was always the bottleneck.)

That said, NIF is for weapons research, not power, but some of the knowledge they gain is probably transferable.