Ashlee Vance visits a Soviet-era nuclear fusion facility in Siberia built in the 1950s-60s. The speakers compare it to Helion, which has raised over $1 billion from Sam Altman and operates as a controversial outsider in fusion research.
The last time I was at a fusion place—
Ah, okay. It was in Russia.
I think it's like going back to the '50s and '60s, them doing research on this in Siberia.
Nice.
There were only like 5 guys working in there. I think it was far from their glory days of what was happening in that building.
That's funny. You're gonna see actually some interesting similarities.
Kilian has been backed by more than $1 billion from Sam Altman and others. And it's seen as sort of the bad boy of the field.
