How to Incinerate the Entire U.S. Stockpile of Nuclear Waste Within 20 Years

How to Incinerate the Entire U.S. Stockpile of Nuclear Waste Within 20 Years

from OilPrice.com Daily News Update by thyu@oilprice.com (Al Fin)

Many billions of dollars have been spent on large scale fusion efforts such as the National Ignition Facility in Livermore or ITER in France. But if the best use of fusion in the intermediate term is to burn up non-recyclable nuclear waste from fission reactors, perhaps the smaller-scale, cheaper approaches might be better? Small efforts such as Bussard IEC fusion, Focus Fusion, General Fusion, Tri Alpha etc. are the sentimental favourites, because they are the work of relatively small groups with low budgets. Their reactors would be small enough to mass produce in factories. And maybe they could even provide
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