But that's not really fusion power. That's just making some fusion happen.

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The Fusion Myth

That nuclear fusion is a source of energy has been known since the invention of the hydrogen bomb. But its control is still a fundamental challenge for research institutes, not some minor technical difficulty that can be easily overcome.

It turns out you can't do fusion on a table top despite all that cold fusion nonsense. Right?

We can do fusion. In the center of this device we made 16 megawatts of fusion power in 1997.

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Fusion is very hard to do.

And that energy is what powers fusion.

And in fact we can make fusion happen.

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Okay. What is fusion? Here comes the nuclear physics.

Nuclear fusion, I had about 10 minutes on that.

Jazz fusion is a combination of rock and jazz.

And created the jinn from a fusion of fire.

And created the jinn from a fusion of fire.

It allowed you to bomb only those things that you absolutely needed and wanted to bomb.

Enter the atomic bomb.

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The key question is, When are we going to get fusion?

It's really been a long time since we've known about fusion.

Everybody can get it. That's why we want to do fusion.

It's the only machine in the world that's actually done fusion.

But, while the fusion process has produced some power (16 million watts of it, to be specific), scientists have yet to create a self sustaining fusion burn. Indeed, unlike nuclear fission, which went from the laboratory to the power grid within two decades, fusion has proved a tough nut to crack.

Oppenheimer, who had built the bomb.

Soldier That's a fucking car bomb!

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We heard the bomb go off.

And there is one reaction that's probably the easiest fusion reaction to do.

And we have 30 million years worth of fusion fuel in sea water.

Because we want 30 million years worth of fusion power for the Earth.

Machines all over the world are reaching fusion temperatures and extending our technological capabilities. The ITER experiment, when it starts up in the early 2020s, will embody those advances, achieving the long awaited fusion burn and place us just one step away from the ultimate goal of getting fusion power on the grid in an affordable manner.

There was the bomb, and there's now.

I didn't like nuclear bomb propelled spaceships.

And the organization is called DA BOMB, A and DA BOMB not like what you guys can build and everything it's like, DA BOMB, it means like Dominican it's an acronym Dominican American Benevolent Organization for Mothers and Babies.

Without nuclear fusion, future generations energy options will be severely limited creating a serious problem for developed and developing countries alike. Lev Artsimovich, the tokamak s inventor, said that fusion will be ready when society needs it.