This looks like new news, but is actually old news — the experiments reported here were done in 2017.
But still. It's part of an international effort which may bring fusion to our tables by 2050. That's thirty years on and cynics would say that fusion is always "thirty years away".
Maybe now it is…
Buried in this China-boosting article: America and Japan are still ahead of China in tokamak tek.
But China is catching up fast. As it does.
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