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		China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run (theregister.com)
		12 points by alex_duf on Jan 22, 2025 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

alex_duf on Jan 22, 2025 [–]

slight error in the article

>Here on Earth, creating hot plasma requires so much energy that Tokamaks didn’t verifiably make more energy than they consumed until a 2023 experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the USA.

It wasn't a tokamak as far as I know.

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