France has upped the ante in the quest for fusion power by maintaining a plasma reaction for over 22 minutes – a new record. The milestone was reached on February 12 at the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA) WEST Tokamak reactor.
Not me being baffled by “The tricky bit isn’t to get atoms to fuse. That’s a fairly simple lab bench experiment.” before remembering that we did that in high school.