China Just Broke Ground on Fusion Nobody Else Will Touch
ENN just started building Helong-2, a fusion platform aimed at a reaction almost no other well-funded fusion company will touch: hydrogen fused with boron, which needs plasma twenty to thirty times hotter than the reaction everyone else is chasing. Nothing has fused yet. First electricity is not targeted until 2030.
Fusion Needs 315 Million Perfect Fuel Capsules a Year
A new Lawrence Livermore study finds that laser-fusion targets can tolerate defects, until performance suddenly falls off a cliff. That boundary may matter more to commercial fusion than the next laboratory yield record.
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