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Helion and similar methods side-step the issue by using (mostly) aneutronic fusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bDXXWQxK38

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

Also, discussing solar and wind without discussing the base load/storage problem skews the discussion towards solar/wind. Steam plants don’t face those challenges in the way those two do; storage is as much a challenge for solar as steam is for nuclear.

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I would expand on your statement by saying that Helion is planning to generate electricity by directly extracting the kinetic energy of the particles created in the fusion reaction. And they need charged particles rather than neutrons.

(I watched the video and really it's as simple as charged particles moving in and creating a magnetic field inside loops of metal which in turn generates a current that can be used. (Just add several dozen years worth of post-doc maths to sort out the details)

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