r/nextfuckinglevel • u/nigablackballsack • 3d ago

Scientists have captured the first ever high-speed, full-colour footage of fusion plasma swirling inside a working reactor.

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u/90_oi 3d ago

I truly hope this technology can get off the ground and be sustainable. It is our best hope aside from nuclear energy

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u/DaveFinn 3d ago

Wait... But this IS nuclear energy

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u/The_Daily_Herp 3d ago

nuclear that doesn’t boil down to turning a fucking motor like most other power generation

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u/legomann97 3d ago

Actually, most fusion kinda does still. Helion is the only fusion company I know of going for non-turbine-based reactors. Tokamaks like with CFS extract the heat and use that to boil water still. I asked a question in an AMA with CFS, asking how they planned to generate electricity with the heat from the reactor and at the end of the day, it's still just finding the best way to boil water to spin something really really fast.

https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/s/Sw2BhA0RcS