I’d have thought, but the Nuclear Fusion breakthrough actually caught me by surprise! That research had been making steady progress, but I didn’t really see much about it (outside of personal research) until the breakthrough actually occurred. I was primarily curious to see if anyone here was up to date on the topic whether though personal interest or being actively involved in the research.

From my understanding mass and energy both have an impact on AG potential, and the lack of sufficient energy (along with the superheavy elements) was a big barrier to further research. Another comment pointed out we’ve made it to 118 so far; if we can get Tokamaks to pump out significantly more than 6 water kettles worth of energy through NF, and solve the problem of the ridiculously short half-lives, I wonder what we’d manage to discover (related to AG or otherwise).

Absolutely a good point though, I guess we’ll just have to wait until the wave of clickbait hits before getting excited. No complaints here, we’ve had plenty of exciting breakthroughs this year as-is!