Nucear Fusion General - superpower edition

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Fusion energy will change everything. Countries cannot be superpowers without it. And there are clear frontrunners right now and America isn't among them.

Latest updates:

- 10fold energy output reached by mixing 1% He3 to a protium-deuterium mixture at the Joint European Torus.
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-new-recipe-for-nuclear-fusion-could-point-the-way-to-more-efficient-power

- Germany's Wendelstein 7-X ready for second phase of testing which will include continuous fusion plasma generation
http://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/energie-umwelt/wendelstein-7-x-vollgas-fuer-die-kernfusion/20232838.html

- Google enters the heated up fusion energy race
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/25/google-enters-race-for-nuclear-fusion-technology

- Trouble for Lockheed builds up, fusion reactor they try to build now 100 times larger than planned - project delayed indefinitely
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4473908/Trouble-Lockheed-s-fusion-reactor.html

-Flagship U.S. Fusion Reactor Breaks Down
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/flagship-u-s-fusion-reactor-breaks-down/

-Korea achieves record 70seconds plasma
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/NN-Korean-fusion-reactor-achieves-record-plasma-1412164.html