Economist: AS THE old joke has it, fusion is the power of the future--and always will be. The sales pitch is irresistible: the principal fuel, a heavy isotope of hydrogen called deuterium, can be extracted from water. In effect, therefore, it is in limitless supply. Nor, unlike fusion’s cousin, nuclear fission, does the process produce much in the way of radioactive waste. It does not release carbon dioxide, either. Which all sounds too good to be true. And it is. For there is the little matter of building......
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Fusion power: Next ITERation?
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on September 2nd, 2011
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