Announcement about major development in fusion

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Major Fusion Energy Breakthrough to Be Announced by Scientists (msn.com)

So I wonder what the ‘major breakthrough’ will be. Who knows, perhaps we will only be a few decades away from achieving a sustainable fusion reaction

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Apparent nuclear fusion power breakthrough -- net energy gain (breaking news 11 Dec 22)

The Financial Times article is paywalled; above is a tweet that sums it up. If true, and if I understand it correctly, this could be very big news for energy. AFAICT, fusion really could be the end-all be-all for clean energy, if it actually works like proponents say it can.