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A tabletop fusor also operates at 15+ keV, so this really doesn't say anything. They very much talk around this even being thermonuclear fusion. I don't think this is any achievement at all tbh.

I believe the main release from TMI was krypton-85, which as a noble gas diffuses quite rapidly and does not concentrate in soil or anywhere else, and decays to rubidium-85 which is stable. It's also ...