I don’t know the details on the lisencing but so far what I’m hearing is that the feds know that if they lay the same kind of regulartory burden on fusion that they do on fission—then fusion reactor technology like fission reactor technology will go overseas. Today the USA has the largest number of fission reactors built many decades ago. But the USA is only a minor player in the international market. The USA was long ago superceded by the russians, koreans japanese and even the chinese.
You should listen to the fusion ceo’s back and forth in the link that I provided. It will give you a feel for the state of the fusion technology race—and how greatly accelerated it is because of interlocking technological advancements that just were not available 5 years ago.
I listened to that and went woa. The Jetson’s science fiction world really is right around the corner.
“I don’t know the details on the lisencing “
I gave it to you.