Government fusion project
News story here.
Not much different from NASA, really.
The goal isn't to have a fusion reactor.
The goal is to have a decades-long fusion reactor project.
You can tell the main problem when the progress is measured and calculated in terms of billions spent.
Good God, how long have they been working that laser confinement thing at Livermore? I was drawing designs for fun of Deuterium-Helium 3 laser pellet fusion spaceships in college, based on the work going on at Livermore then.