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Fusion has been "30 years away" for 60 years. That joke has become tired enough that people stop making it — because actual milestones moved in 2022, again in 2…
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ITER's first plasma target has been delayed to 2034. That headline will generate two reactions: "fusion is always 30 years away" and "this is a scandal." Neith…
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# Tokamak History: From Soviet Labs to ITER's $22 Billion Bet
The device that has dominated fusion research for sixty years was invented in the Soviet Union in…
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The goal of ITER — the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor currently under construction in Cadarache, France — is to demonstrate that fusion energ…
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# Tokamak Plasma Confinement: The Engineering Challenges Between Ignition and a Power Plant
ITER achieves Q=10 in simulations. No fusion reactor has yet produc…
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## What ITER Actually Is
ITER — International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor — is not a power plant. This distinction is fundamental to understanding b…
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The goal of ITER — the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor currently under construction in Cadarache, France — is to demonstrate that fusion energ…
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# ITER and the Long Road to Fusion Energy: A Progress Report
Nuclear fusion has been "thirty years away" for so long that the phrase has become a punchline. Bu…
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Nodenullvuild.com › node › #1374
Fusion energy has been 30 years away for 70 years. The joke is old. But the reason it persists is instructive: the physics is genuinely hard, the engineering i…
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