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The US is participating in the ITER project [0], that's pretty much as good as it get's right now unless a country starts their own, very expensive, project. [
by freeflight 9y ago
The US is participating in the ITER project [0], that's pretty much as good as it get's right now unless a country starts their own, very expensive, project.
[0] https://science.energy.gov/~/media/fes/pdf/DOE_US_Participation_in_the_ITER_Project_May_2016_Final.pdf https://science.energy.gov/~/media/fes/pdf/DOE_US_Participat...
- majewsky 9y agoThere can be benefits to running multiple projects in parallel. For example, there are at least two competing reactor designs (tokamak and stellarator) where we (IIRC) still don't know which one is more promising. ITER is a tokamak, whereas Germany (which also participates in ITER) has a research stellarator in Greifswald, the Wendelstein 7-X.