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China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible
(www.the-independent.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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Why you attacking nuclear? It's an amazing technology
it's only amazing as long as the government owns it. in my country we could technically have free power because of renewables (and almost did, but EU stopped us from doing it because it would crash the commercial power market elsewhere - EU bs even made power more expensive just to make it competitive and not to crash oil and coal markets). but because of surplus power generated from renewables, our current neoliberal government has been getting rid of solar and shutting down windpower and attacked hydro in favor of constructing nuclear power plants; on top of making it law that the government isn't allowed to own or buy the nuclear power plants and also offered to fund private interests the construction of nuclear power plants.
the reason? power is a natural monopoly, and nuclear is fuel based. which means the supplier of power decides the supply and demand by artificially controlling the fuel flow - the idea is to never let power run at a surplus supply generated by solar, wind, and hydro ever again so there is no risk that privately owned power monopolies would be unprofitable.