from https://news.mit.edu/2021/MIT-CFS-major-advance-toward-fusion-energy-0908 :

It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a field strength of 20 tesla, the most powerful magnetic field of its kind ever created on Earth. That successful demonstration helps resolve the greatest uncertainty in the quest to build the world’s first fusion power plant that can produce more power than it consumes, according to the project’s leaders at MIT and startup company Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS).

Seems to be huge. Maybe there will be some commercially viable fusion power plant that can generate net energy before we are all dead. I'm still skeptical though.

Meanwhile China is developing a new molten salt fission reactor.

https://www.livescience.com/china-creates-new-thorium-reactor.html https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-28/china-thorium-molten-salt-nuclear-reactor-energy/100351932

"Thorium — named after Thor, the Norse god of thunder — has a few key advantages over uranium." ;)

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