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Here's a comment on that by Prof. Dr. Sibylle Günter, Max-Plank-Institut für Plasmaphysik (In German): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweAVoaVB34

The current schedule is to have an operational power plant in 2050.

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For those who don't speak German, that's the schedule for 2050: ITER is supposed to show by 2027 a successful result to produce more energy than put in. Then they want to rework the design and start building an actual power plant around 2035, allow 10 years of construction, with being connected to the grid around 2050.

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