Long story short: it has never been done before and that's why it's a breakthrough. Never mind that it's totally impractical and far from something we could use

Long story short: it has never been done before and that's why it's a breakthrough. Never mind that it's totally impractical and far from something we could use to solve our energy problems TODAY. We need to focus on building hundreds if not thousands of nuclear fission reactors and to reduce the population growth through birth control outside the Western world.