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[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

They're saying the NIF wasn't made to be a power plant, just a research facility, so now they have to figure out how to make it sustainable. Also, much more work has gone into tokamak systems, so laser fusion is somewhat behind.