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>>7914801
>Is ITER actually going to be able to achieve a net energy positive reaction?
Yes, it will work, there is no doubt about it. As I often repeated, the reactor is big enough for that, and by a large margin. The problem was to find the money to build it (but thankfully the EU seems very serious about it lately) and to develop the technology (such cooling systems, divertors, lithium blankets, etc), the problem is NOT the physics behind the reactor.

https://fusion.gat.com/iter/iter-ga/images/pdfs/IPB%20pdfs/IPB_01_Overview_Intro.pdf
https://fusion.gat.com/iter/iter-ga/images/pdfs/IPB%20pdfs/IPB_02_Conf%2BTransport.pdf

From my experience, most people complaining about fusion not going fast enough are generally liberal arts majors who have never computed an integral in their lives. It sure will never work if we simply shrug it off when it becomes too expensive.

Fusion works, get over it bitches.