The nuclear engineering side of fusion has been underfunded for a long time. It's only been in the last couple years that the plasma physics side of the house h

The nuclear engineering side of fusion has been underfunded for a long time. It's only been in the last couple years that the plasma physics side of the house has been willing to say "OK, we're close enough now that it's time to rebalance the budgets -- even if that means some of us lose our jobs."