This news is two years old and is from the garbage pile that is timesofindia. It doesn’t deserve to be posted in a tech community.
The AI generated image is such an eye sore.
I was going to write something about Gordon Freeman and Resonance cascade failure. And then I saw that it was AI generated, and that explains a lot.
At least they disclosed that it’s ai.
Well if it doesn’t light up how can you tell it’s on?
It’s like how everyone thinks that nuclear reactors glow green.
This is not how it looks. It’s also not a artifical sun.
It’s slop.
artificial sun
You can just say fusion reactor
This development by the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) is another move towards achieving clean fusion energy, whose ability to generate unlimited amounts of electricity with little to no carbon emission is promising.
The article, like so many others concerning nuclear technology, refused to address the unit cost of energy.
Why is building a large, complex, and temperamental fusion engine more economical than churning out an equivalent number of wind turbines or solar panels? The article doesn’t say
You can just say fusion reactor
The Times of India is a rag that literally accepts bribes for positive coverage; sensationalist garbage is their bread and butter.
But it gets worse: this story is over two years out-of-date.
The KSTAR Research Center at the Korea Institute of Fusion Energy (KFE) announced on the 20th that during the ‘2023 KSTAR Plasma Campaign’ conducted from December of last year to February of this year [2024], it achieved a 48-second operation of ultra-high-temperature plasma at an ion temperature of 100 million degrees and a record 102-second operation in high-confinement mode (H-mode).
This happened back in 2024. Here’s a paper.
I remember reading about russian intelligence sponsored anti vaccine propaganda from the time of india, targeting poor countries like pakistan and in africa and the like.
Wind and solar can’t get us free of CO2 yet.
This is the problem, this idea of 100% carbon free or “whelp, might as well give up and burn coal”.
We will always need buffers to grids of solar and wind power, they point is we are reducing outputs significantly, aiming for a range the planet can deal with.
Funny for an ecologist to admit that you don’t care about climate change if nuclear power is can be ended.
For your interest, it’s at least 20 years that renewables do absolutely nothing for CO2 emissions. Meanwhile nuclear power is carbon free since the 70’s.
Technological progress.
Need sun for solar, so won’t work well for space when you get further out, and no wind in space.
But there is an air and space museum.
Let me guess, they gonna boil water with it
Meanwhile, the US sits in the corner playing with their feces
if you can be anything… be the best.
Can’t we get just one article that doesn’t have comments about the U.S.? The article has nothing to do with the country.
To be self-denominated as the “greatest country in the world” yeah, it Jas everything to do with the US of A.
Really? I think we’re reading different articles then bcz my understanding was that this article is about a Korean institution and their research into Fusion Energy.
And how the US is just guzzling oil and doing nothing about curving that, yeah, that’s what it is.
Can you just go away? This is a boring conversation now.
I can. Now, will I? That’s an entirely different question. Do you want me to go away? Because if you do, there’s a chance I could consider doing something ro make you happy, like going away. No guarantee though.
https://usfusionenergy.org/fusion-united-states maybe just admit you’re wrong.
The NIF’s work is genuinely impressive. Achieving ignition ten times with a record yield of 8.6 MJ in April 2025 is real scientific progress and is amazing. American scientists are not the problem, nor did I say that they were.
But notice what you just linked me. NIF is a Department of Energy federal research facility. Publicly funded. Government science. The same category of institution the current administration is actively dismantling.
While there were past achievements, at the same time the Trump administration proposed 40% cuts to NIH and 55% cuts to NSF in 2026. By November 2025, $2.3 billion in NIH grants and $700 million in NSF grants had been frozen or terminated across nearly 4,000 projects. NSF awards dropped 50% in 2025 compared to recent years. Over 25,000 science agency employees left, many voluntarily through resignation incentive programs, many at early career stages. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship halved the number of fellowships awarded in 2025. Universities across the country froze hiring and cut research spending in response.
The fusion breakthroughs you’re pointing to were built on decades of sustained public investment and institutional infrastructure that is currently being systematically defunded. The scientists who achieved those results are the same ones that are now being told their grants are frozen, their fellowships are cut, and their agencies are being restructured around defense priorities.
So yes, the US has done remarkable fusion research. Past tense is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The comment was about where we’re headed, being present tense. And where we’re headed is a country that just told its early career researchers their scientific purpose has been knocked off course by illegal funding cuts while other countries continue to make advance after advance with no signs of stopping, even further, being fueled by the exodus of researchers.
So, yes, the US is sitting in the corner having, at present, taken a very anti-science and anti-education stance through funding cuts and deregulation.
Reading comprehension gets them every time 🤔
Budget cuts:
https://cen.acs.org/policy/nih-nsf-ostp-science-research-funding-cuts/103/web/2025/12
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nih-nsf-cuts-2025-data
https://www.aau.edu/key-issues/federal-research-cuts-threaten-us-innovation-and-leadership
https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-026-00088-9/index.html
Proposed cuts:
https://cen.acs.org/policy/trump-budget-fy2027-science-nsf-epa-nih-fda/104/web/2026/04
Researcher exodus/brain drain:
https://medium.com/scitech-forefront/science-funding-cuts-break-the-research-pipeline-ce02c7073253
National Ignition Facility?
For weapons research. Has nothing to do with generating commercial electrical power, indeed, it never will. Exactly like all the other fusion devices.
