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China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record by generating steady loop of plasma for 1,000 seconds (www.livescience.com)
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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 8 hours ago

Well, there's been incremental progress all along. I remember reading about milliseconds being a big accomplishment at some point.

Also, it's pretty heavily dependent on the exact plasma in question. One hot enough to do lots of fusion will probably be different, so this isn't the finish line. Relevant XKCD.