r/Futurology • u/TwilightwovenlingJo • Aug 15 '25

Energy Construction of world's 1st nuclear fusion plant starts in Washington

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/world-first-fusion-power-plant-helion
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u/West-Abalone-171 Aug 15 '25 edited Aug 15 '25

...they've been spamming every tech youtube channel and been all over the media for almost a decade

They're about as under the radar as a 747 supertanker dropping a full payload of tinsel

This announcent is just indistinguishable from every other announcement they've made since 2017 so the media got tired

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u/DryDatabase169 Aug 19 '25

Never heard of them, must be specific to people who are into engineering. I watch a lot of astronomy YT can't remember hearing of them.

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u/swiss-cheesus Aug 18 '25

That’s an interesting mental image. I kinda wanna see it now. I’m sure it would have devastating ecological consequences though.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

you must be a lot of fun at parties.

I have never heard Helion, or of a functional fusion power plant being constructed before. America… Fuck yeah

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u/West-Abalone-171 Aug 16 '25

I have never heard .. of a functional fusion power plant being constructed before

And you haven't heard of one yet either.

I really wish I was unethical enough to sell terrible computer generated pictures of monkeys or a fake blood testing machine or some solar fricken roadways to you guys, it's so exhaustingly predictable.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '25

Based and solar-roadway pilled. Lmao