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Fusion Reactor Sets New Endurance Record
!splut writes "Fusion fans out there will be interested to know that an experimental French fusion reactor has set a new duration record of 210 seconds. Most fusion reactor research works (or tries to) by containing and compressing a quantity of plasma via an electomagnetic field in a toroidial chamber. Fusion energy could potentially provide a a clean, efficient, and virtually inexhaustible source of energy, but fusion reactoins have proven difficult to contain and control, so this is a significant achievement."
I know you are making a joke, but seriously folks....
A reactor operating 220 seconds is not a huge tech leap away from one able to operate forever.
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