Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made from fusing atoms

Re:Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made fro... by rsynnott on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:28AM (#30456623)

This seems... dubious at best? In terms of large nuclear reactor projects recently, we have the Finnish and Flamanville ones as examples of major overruns... but they're the first two examples of a type. Other EPR builds are going much better; one of the Chinese ones is finished and the UK one is basically on track. The timing was bad, in that EPR starts coincided with a general loss of interest in nuclear over Fukushima, but there's nothing too unusual here.

Historically the first build of a type has _generally_ been problematic.

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Re:Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made fro... by ncmncm on Friday February 25, 2022 @02:37AM (#30464598)

It is, anyway, a bigger problem in the US than in some other places, and, in the US, a bigger problem in public projects than in private projects. So, we see it operating today on NASA's SLS rocket, but not on SpaceX's Starship.

But there has never been a privately financed nuke plant.

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