Which country will win fusion’s commercial race?
America is favourite to build the first credible commercial-style pilot. China is better placed to build the second, tenth and fiftieth plants. The latter is the race that matters.
Topic
Commercialization
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The reactor is only the beginning
Fusion will be won or lost by the industrial platform surrounding the machine: materials, drivers, magnets, diagnostics, fuel, manufacturing, regulation and talent.
A device is not a plant. A plant is not a fleet.
Fusion schedules become legible only when each claim is located on the full path from plasma experiment to repeatable infrastructure.