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Code switch for: "I don't have a point so why don't you make it for me"
Verified electrical output, the answer is verified electrical power generated.
...as in we should measure power generation experiments by how much power they generated.
Isn't that obvious?
They weren't trying to generate electricity in this experiment. They were trying to sustain a reaction. As you said in another comment, they are different problems.
Converting heat to electricity is a problem we already understand pretty well since we've been doing it basically the same way since the first power plant fired up. Sustaining a fusion reaction is a problem we've barely started figuring out.