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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by rnhmjoj on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @08:47AM (#33983374)
> There's no plan to hook ITER up to a thermal plant because it's a research reactor not a power plant

Interestingly, that's not really true: IIRC the japanese team working on the WCCB breeder module (that uses supercritical water as coolant) plans on connecting the water loop to a small turbine. If they succeed it would be the first ever electrical power produced from fusion.

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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by moloch-hai on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:29PM (#33993136)
Ability of steam to drive a turbine doesn't seem to be in dispute.

Making tea would be better theater, if they need that, and cheaper: "the first tea ever brewed by over-unity fusing neutrons".

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