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Meaning they don't work. Meaning a "reactor" as we think of it—ie one accomplishing it's purpose of power generation—doesn't exist.

• fulafel 7y ago
  Nuclear reactors aren't necessarily used for power generation. The other applications of nuclear reactors are for example producing interesting elements or isotoopes, and irradiating things like cancer patients and physics experiments. There's are also bioreactors and chemical reactors. It seems to me the term reactor is just used for a device that induces reactions.
• egdod 7y ago
  The reactors work in that they produce measurable fusion reactions. They only don’t work in practical terms of being a power plant.
  • jtbayly 7y ago
    Yeah. That's exactly what I said. They don't work for what we intend to accomplish with them.
    • egdod 7y ago
      No, you said it doesn’t work as a reactor. It does. The definition of “reactor” doesn’t require generating net positive power.