How Close is power from Nuclear Fusion

I keep reading articles like the following:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/zap-energy-fusion-reactor

and

https://spectrum.ieee.org/general-fu...l-fusion-power

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It might be time to retire that overused joke about nuclear fusion always being 30 years away.

Fusion power^WP seems to explain the current state of the art.

I remember reading about:

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The first experiment to achieve controlled thermonuclear fusion was accomplished using Scylla I at LANL in 1958. Scylla I was a θ-pinch machine, with a cylinder full of deuterium.

in the magazine Nuclear Engineering, to which my Dad subscribed, at the time the study was published and the negative impact it had on the fission industry and uranium stocks.

Still waiting for success. ;)

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