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CFS completed the first of 18 coils on their prototype device last October, and it worked better than expected, far more than enough for commercially viable fusion plants. Their prototype is scheduled to be completed and lit up in 2025, and the first commercial plants should be ready in the early 2030s.

The new high temperature superconducting materials that they're using to build the containment coils make them significantly smaller, cheaper, and less complicated. Definitely worth reading up on if you haven't.

https://cfs.energy/news-and-media/commonwealth-fusion-system...

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That is what they tell their pigeon investors. But they don't say there is not enough tritium to operate commercial reactors, or that no material has been identified that can hold the structure together after bombardment with hot neutrons. They don't say that the reactor would need to be maintained using robots nobody has ever built.

Come 2025, there will not be a useful reactor. They will instead offer an excuse, which is easy to come by.