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What factors make fusion difficult to achieve?

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The main difficulty in building the nuclear fusion reactor is the extremely high temperatures. Building reactors to withstand such temperatures is difficult.

Fusion reactors require high amounts of energy to initiate the reaction. It is difficult to get a net positive amount of energy.

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