Authored by Lawrence Kadish via The Gatestone Institute,
For decades, fusion energy has been the great scientific pursuit -clean, limitless power drawn from the same physics that powers the sun. Enormous progress has been made in the technology required to harness nuclear fusion and significant investment is now being made by private companies and President Donald J. Trump's White House.
As we advance on fusion success, however,there is a danger of progress being halted by an enormous challenge: the supply chain. Without an American-based industrial infrastructure to source, manufacture, and deliver the materials fusion energy requires, our nation's dominance in this crucial field is at risk.
Consider the "shopping list" needed to create a viable fusion reactor.
Start with its fuel,tritium, a rare hydrogen isotope. There are not a lot of tritium supplies anywhere in the world.
Accordingly, you need to manufacture them – an enormous challenge before you even get to sustaining the actual fusion reaction.
The same issue applies tomagnetsneeded to keep the fusion reaction contained and running.
It is not a secret for those advancing our nation's energy independence through fusion.
David Kirtley, CEO of Helion Energy, a major leader in the field, has stated that supply chain challenges could put fusion's future here in America at risk.
As a result, they havemoved some key technology manufacturing in-house.
Source: ZeroHedge News
