Budget Cuts Force U.S. out of the Nuclear Fusion Race

Budget Cuts Force U.S. out of the Nuclear Fusion Race

by burgessj@oilprice.com (James Burgess)

Nuclear fission is the process by which atoms are split apart to release energy, the process which powers modern nuclear reactors. But fission also has a more powerful, more efficient, cleaner cousin; nuclear fusion. In nuclear fusion atoms are fused together to release even greater amounts of energy.After the nuclear fission bombs of the Second World War scientists started to experiment with much more powerful fusion bombs. However it wasn’t until 1951 that fusion was considered for peaceful endeavours. A Princeton University scientist by…Read more...