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What is meant by eccentric science? Would you be specific?


Well, I don't know much about the subject, but the way I've understood it there's ITER and then there are a couple other reactor projects. Everyone except ITER is violating some kind of popularly held belief among physicists - they could be cheaper and better, but it's far from certain that they'll work at all. This just looks like another one of those.


I don't think it violates physicists' beliefs, it's just that they're more confident in tokamaks like ITER because they've been studied a lot more.




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