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Comment by dsr_

When a reporter calls their credibility into question in the second sentence, there's a problem.

"they would produce vast amounts of energy with little radioactive waste, forming little or no plutonium byproducts that could be used for nuclear weapons."

Fusion products are helium, neutrons, and neutrinos. Stars eventually fuse products up to iron.

To generate plutonium requires a supernova...

parent dsr_ 9 years ago

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