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Freefall 0172

Power! We have power! Or how to start a fusion reactor

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How will we know when it's started?
We'll see our power indicators go up.
That's it? I heard about a prototype reactor that lost it's plasma containment.
It made a huge bang and flash of light when it started up!
Yes. It's one of the few cases where an existing product became vaporware.

Vaporware – is a software product that is advertised for a long time, but never released in the end. That is, something that never becomes a real product. Florence talks about the reverse process: when a real product explodes, it becomes vaporware (vapor – steam)

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