Scale is not everything. There are types of fusion that would not build such huge monstrosities. We should look at a broader range of ways to do fusion and th

Scale is not everything. There are types of fusion that would not build such huge monstrosities. We should look at a broader range of ways to do fusion and then finance the ones most likely to work. As you said, most of the money on ITAR is hardly directly related to fusion. A few companies get lots of money to do research to hit very specific performance that are specific to ITAR. The problem is this does not really build a broad range of companies that work in fusion. It was simply to early to engaged in such a huge project especially because the technologies are evolving so fast outside of the project and some parts of the design are already not up to date 20 years before it will really be ready.