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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by blazekp on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @07:13AM (#23985422)
> What makes scientists believe that the solution to nuclear fusion power is only a matter of scale?

I guess there are too many physicists who can lobby well and their income depends on it.

I don't expect any results after the many attempts (as opposed to fission, which had almost immediate results).

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Re:ITER: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly by willis936 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:06AM (#23997116)
In case anyone read this comment and wanted the real answer: empirically derived scaling laws from a series of machines increasing in size. The last/largest is JET.

http://fusionwiki.ciemat.es/wiki/Scaling_law

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