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World’s 1st nuclear fusion-powered electric propulsion drive unveiled - Interesting Engineering (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 51 points 7 months ago

Yeah, that's the fault of the article author. The actual press release uses "fusion-enhanced" which is a lot more honest.

To be fair, they're quoting a 50% increase in thrust so it's not completely clickbait to say "fusion powered" but it definitely does give the wrong picture.