Translating activation energy, via required relative particle collision speeds, to crazy plasma temperature is a favorite rhetorical device of tokamak promoters. Those who know what they are talking about know that their brethren at LHC routinely achieve collision "temperatures" approaching 10^17 K. (That would be 100 million-billion degrees, or 10+ billion times as "hot" as hoped for a tokamak, if it actually mattered.)
Another way to say "embrittled materials" is "the reactor". And "orthogonal" here means that completely solving plasma confinement would not help at all with the problem that turning it on destroys your power station in a few short months.
But none of this addresses the statement quoted at all.
Another way to say "embrittled materials" is "the reactor". And "orthogonal" here means that completely solving plasma confinement would not help at all with the problem that turning it on destroys your power station in a few short months.
But none of this addresses the statement quoted at all.