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ackermann t1_j08b62v wrote

Reply to comment by Robo-Connery in National Ignition Facility (NIF) announces net positive energy fusion experiment by Robo-Connery

Cool thanks! So magnetic confinement devices do have continuous fusion then, unlike NIF style devices?

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Robo-Connery OP t1_j08ddiu wrote

The best ones are only matter of tens of seconds. ITER is meant to be 1000s but the ultimate goal is continuous operation. Nif and other icf machines are necessarily pulsed (because they are explosions).

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