>There's no such thing as a single "breakthrough" in fusion, and it bugs me whenever news outlets claim it's "just around the corner" or "it just requires a gen

>There's no such thing as a single "breakthrough" in fusion, and it bugs me whenever news outlets claim it's "just around the corner" or "it just requires a genius to figure it out". Fusion is achieved by many incremental improvements on the design of the facility, the macroscopic structure of the fuel, and its material makeup. I don't think I completely agree with this. In ICF there is a lot of physics to be explored, in addition to just building a bigger NIF/LMJ.