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Japan sets new nuclear fusion record (bigthink.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious to c/science

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A massive nuclear fusion experiment just hit a major milestone, potentially putting us a little closer to a future of limitless clean energy.

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[–] RubberElectrons 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

has it been a developmental dead end?

Nope, there are several companies & universities working on it.

W7x is the latest stellarator to come online, but there's a new Princeton University startup called Thea doing all the complex geometry and control problems of a stellarator in software.

It's a neat and elegant idea, engineering-wise. And no matter whose strategy works out, we all win in terms of understanding plasma physics, and possibly unlocking the secrets of the universe.