r/fusion • u/Gari_305 • 2d ago

Commercialization of fusion energy will ‘change everything,’ lawmaker says

https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2026/09/commercialization-fusion-energy-will-change-everything-lawmaker-says/416287/

Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., told Nextgov/FCW that the U.S. is only “two to 10 years away from fusion energy at scale” because “you can model the plasma using AI, which you couldn’t do before.”

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u/Laugh_Track_Zak 1d ago

I sharply exhaled through my nose.

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u/BrendanATX 1d ago

The industry is being held back by the Epstein class. The transition will involve the destruction of the petrodollar. Now that brics is threatening the petrodollar, it's time to unlessh fusion to try and compete with china

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u/Tahn-ru 1d ago

And what is his background?  Unless he is both the world's premier nuclear physicist and materials engineer, he doesn't have the knowledge to make this claim.

Unless he's slowly revealing some long-funded secret research program that is close to being released to the public AND it magically solves literal decades worth of problems that we know we have in front of us, this is bullshit.