Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by oxfordmale on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:06AM (#30272146)

Of course this is great news, however, it is worth taking into account it took them 25 years just to double the energy output. They are also nowhere near long sustained operation of such reactors. It really requires an order of magnitude increase before nuclear fusion becomes a realistic prospect in two decades.

I understand this just to validate design choices and it is a good step forward. However, it doesn't make nuclear fusion a reality in two decades unless further records are set using this design

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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by willis936 on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:33AM (#30272409)

JET ran its moonshot campaign 25 years ago. Moonshot as in "we don't care if the machine runs again", for whatever reason. It hasn't been funded for nuclear operations since then. It's not that it took 25 years to make progress. It took 25 years to find funding.

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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by kristaps on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:13AM (#30272223)

From the article I gathered that this run was mostly about validating some design choices for ITER, not about pushing output limits.

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Re:Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy by oxfordmale on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @08:25AM (#30272321)

Yes in that sense it is a great achievement, however, it only put us a tiny baby step closer to fusion power.

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