If work on a commercial plant began in parallel with ITER, rather than decades after it goes online, fusion might be ready to scale up for production by midcentury, Najmabadi argues.

• 纳马巴蒂指出，如果商用电厂和ITER同时发展，而不是浪费几十年等它上线，那麽也许到本世纪中叶，核融合即能提高生产规模了。