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It's hard to say, but since nuclear power paranoia didn't really kick off until around the 70s, even the most optimistic scenario there would put "too cheap to meter" status at 3+ decades after the first self-sustaining controlled fission reaction in 1942. We're still some unknown time before the first self-sustaining controlled fusion reaction, so discussion of extreme cheapness seems premature.


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