China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds - eviltoast
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    14 days ago

    the economically sound thing to do is to use your fusion reactor to power your relatively conventional fission reactor

    A new one to me. Considering how expensive these are, it would be surprising that traditional Uranium mining/enrichment wouldn’t still have an edge. But considering that commercial Tritium is exclusively produced from nuclear reactors, there is a circular money pit economy opportunity.