I'm not really sure why I am getting downvoted. I was talking to a friend about this and a nuclear engineering ph.d. candidate at the University of Michigan wor

I'm not really sure why I am getting downvoted. I was talking to a friend about this and a nuclear engineering ph.d. candidate at the University of Michigan working on plasma physics started talking with me about it and essentially echoed the same sentiment. I'm paraphrasing, "One of the jokes of Fusion is that it's always 50 years off... It's sexy, but in reality it gets funding because it happens to be what we build nuclear bombs with, and because we can't do live simulations anymore, we build supercomputers and fusion experiments to verify our bomb making."