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by p1mrx 1060 days ago
We've already passed the point where superconductors need liquid helium:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC_fusion_reactor

"The most probable candidate material is yttrium barium copper oxide, with a design temperature of 20 K, allowing various coolants (e.g. liquid hydrogen, liquid neon, or helium gas) instead of the much more complicated liquid helium refrigeration chosen by ITER."