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JT-60 in Japan has done about half a minute, actually. There is less of an issue with sustaining reactions (since there has been steady progress over the years) than with coming up with materials that would stand up under a commercial fusion reactor's duty cycle.

http://iopscience.iop.org/0029-5515/48/8/085002



See, not a physicist. Thanks.




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