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Re:Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scient... by DennisP on Saturday March 10, 2018 @11:14AM (#16558999)
That would be true if we had no other data to go on, but we do: the fusion triple product, which has to exceed a threshold for net power. The JT-60 tokamak in Japan reached a triple product in 1999, using D-D fuel, that would have barely exceeded breakeven if they'd been using D-T. Fifty years ago we were nowhere near that close.

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