What fusion actually means
Fusion joins light nuclei into a more tightly bound product. The missing mass appears as energy, but a useful power plant needs much more than a reaction diagram. It needs fuel supply, confinement, materials, heat extraction, controls, safety systems, and maintainable operation.
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Why plasma is central
Fusion fuel becomes plasma at extreme temperature. Because plasma is electrically charged, magnetic fields can guide it without asking solid walls to touch the hottest material. That is why tokamaks, stellarators, and field-reversed configurations all focus so much attention on magnetic geometry.
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How to read gain
Gain can refer to target gain, plasma gain, machine gain, facility gain, or net electricity. Those are different boundaries. A serious reader asks which boundary was measured before deciding how close a result is to commercial energy.
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