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jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

There is no current actual improvement other than the possibilities. By cooling the plasma edge and using clean wall materials, they broke a theoretical density barrier that could potentially bring steady-state fusion closer to reality.

That’s all it is. We’re no closer to steady fusion, but now we know we can push past the Greenwald limit.

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