China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds - eviltoast
  • Chrobin@discuss.tchncs.de
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    13 days ago

    As far as I know, the current plans for fusion require deuterium and tritium. Whole deuterium can be easily obtained from water, tritium is a bigger problem. Its replacement, helium-3, is also not really frequent on earth.