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Why Europe’s top nuclear minds are turning to China’s fusion breakthrough push (www.scmp.com)

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Current geopolitics might suggest that Western scientists have been in general alignment with the United States in the global race for fusion energy – but some of Europe’s top nuclear physicists are placing their bets on China. Scepticism over US fusion goals and chronic delays at the 33-nation International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) project in France have created an opening for a new leader in the field, and China appears poised to fill it. Targeted for completion in 2027, the...

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

ITER is clearly the wrong way to go. Even if they achieve long term containment no country could afford to build one, and it would take a generation.