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Uses of Nuclear Fusion: Beyond a Green Energy Source
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[QUOTE="etudiant, post: 5731913, member: 320767"] The appeal of fusion is that it potentially permits unlimited power production with very little nuclear waste. That seems a large social good. The glitch is that it is a hard problem which got funded generously only as long as there was cold war demand for fusion experts, the idea being to use the power research to develop talents that could then be tapped by the security sector. Once the cold war ended, the military support did as well, so the money flow was reduced to a trickle. Worse yet, the effort was then made multinational, an approach guaranteed to multiply costs and maximize delays, because the object shifts from project success to maximizing the benefit for each participant and the associated bureaucracy. Meanwhile, the US is gradually getting dumber, with an increasingly vocal anti science anti rational culture emerging. That trend is exacerbated by the shift of the best and the brightest away from productive sciences towards the financial and entertainment sectors as well as the gradual de-industrialization of the country. So the likelihood of the US leading the charge to make fusion a practical reality and to achieve that good is declining steadily. [/QUOTE]
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