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Shocking news: The ITER fusion reactor is delayed again

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/iters-timeline-for-fusion-stretched-out-even-further/

A project that costs tens of billions of dollars and takes decades to build and the work is divided up among several different countries. Maybe they'll finish it by 2100.

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>decades of work

>dozens of countries

>billions of dollars

>untested/uncertain/theoretical technology, success not even remotely guaranteed

Instead of using modern nuclear reactors :marseysipping:

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It's a research project so obviously it's untested, uncertain and theoretical. :marseyshrug:

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And most importantly, a waste of resources! :marseythumbsup:

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Better this than forever wars in the sand.

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Eh, it's like 20 billion? Sure, the project management has been r-slurred, but building normal nuclear power plants is going to cost anything from 8 (Chinkland) to 10 (single new reactor in Finland) to 20 (big turkroach NPP project) billion anyway, so it's not even extraordinarily expensive for the field.

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Waste of resources.

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