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Afaik what makes fusion hard is maintaining the conditions that allow fusion to occur. Because of this, it’s quite safe - if anything goes wrong, it’ll just stop working.


Safe? Really?

I expect that the containment vessels will get very radioactive.

But all a bit hypothetical, since none exist


Yes they do exist, link elsewhere in this thread, Helion have a 7th generation nuclear fusion reactor fusing once every ten seconds or so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDXXWQxK38

(It's not surplus of power, but it is repeatable fusion actually happening).


That is not a fusion reactor




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