Fusion power start-ups go small in effort to bring commercial reactors to life. - NBCNewsMACH
near Toulouse, France — with a price tag so far of about $14 billion — is still under construction.
On Earth, it’s a bit harder. You won’t find plasmas occurring naturally, except inside a lightning bolt. Plasma can be created by applying an electric field to a gas until it’s so hot that it conducts electricity, but controlling the plasma once it’s created is very difficult. As one researcher put it, controlling plasma within a reactor vessel is like trying to control a cigarette’s smoke ring..
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