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The quest to build a star
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Breaking Even in Plasma Physics
Scientists are closing in on brake even, which is this point where they can get as much power out of a fusion reaction as they actually use to trigger it. There're a lot of technical and scientific challenges here that they still have to overcome. The more they zoom in on this, scientists keep finding more things that they need to learn about. And that's part of why the time line for fusion keeps getting longer.
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