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A critical milestone for Helion was achieving temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius in their sixth prototype, a temperature deemed ideal for deuterium-tritium reactions but less so for their helium-3 strategy. Moreover, there is the ongoing issue of helium-3's scarcity on Earth. Helion's proposed method for generating helium-3 through deuterium collisions could result in lower overall cycle efficiency.
Furthermore, the instability of plasma motion poses an additional challenge, which can hinder energy generation. With little public information or published technical reports available from the company, the true progress and viability of Helion Energy remain largely opaque.