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ITER is the Chicago pile that demonstrated fission reaction. Fusion is harder than fission so there have been lots of Tokamaks working on fusion and controlling
by ianburrell 2y ago
ITER is the Chicago pile that demonstrated fission reaction. Fusion is harder than fission so there have been lots of Tokamaks working on fusion and controlling plasma.
The next step is to run self-powered fusion for long periods. We haven’t done either part before. It needs to be demonstrated, studied, and controlled before can build power reactor.
- godelski 2y agoI mean technically it doesn't __need__ to be demonstrated first. But given how long we've been failing at successfully creating fusion, it certainly makes sense to change strategies to: instead of being efficient, let's just make the damn thing work, and then study it so that we can then make efficient ones.