Dubbed the “artificial sun,” the Burning Plasma Experimental Superconducting Tokamak (BEST) is under construction in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province. The BEST facility represents one of China’s major ventures into controlled nuclear fusion and is poised to attempt the world’s first fusion energy power generation demonstration.
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I’m sure it’s a possibility. I’d also guess that inefficiencies caused by private companies are greatly to blame. At every stage of the process, from consulting, surveying to construction, some shareholders are going to have to take their cut. And because this is a new industry with no benchmark to measure against, they can drag their feet and string along the gravy train for as long as they like.