I clarified break-even to "engineering break-even", since net power out is what counts. We have never gotten anywhere near that. (Being a factor of ten away is nowhere near.)
In fact, absolutely NO electric power has been generated by any fustion reactorl. Not one plasma fusion device has heat exchangers, turbines, etc, capable of generating electric power. Adding these to research reactors will add further engineering constraints, especially in locating the coils further from the plasma to provide room for the heat exchange fluid.
Fusion has been singularly unable to produce usefuel energy and does not look like it will do so for decades. Perhaps never. You can be as optimistic as you like, but the facts remain that fusion has a very tenuous future at best as far as present information indicates.
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If you did not misread or misinterpret what I wrote, you would not be so silly.
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