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I don't think that's necessary the case. Instead, you approach the megaproject as a series of prototypes, spending large sum of money in the hope of quick adva

• Retric 6y ago
  That already happened in the ITER development process with early version safety sitting on people’s desks. Sometimes you get an awesome breakthrough that makes everything work, other times no so much. ITER is designed to be a test bed not the final design. Plenty of advancements have taken place after the design was essentially finalized, but none of them actually help test things like heavy neutron bombardment of a lithium blanket.