Talk:Nuclear fusion

Please attribute the criticisms of fusion power, or provide better arguments for them. At the moment I'd strongly disagree with them. --Robert Merkel

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Here's one link

http://www.ornl.gov/~webworks/cpr/rpt/104912.pdf

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Here's another

http://vlt.ucsd.edu/stacey.pdf

I'll rephrase the criticism, but it was a hot topic a few years back when the Department of Energy was deciding funding priorities for future energy research.

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Has anybody considered the possible social and environmental costs of obtaining an extremely cheap source of energy? For example, the economic changes that might result, and the environmental damage that could be done if energy costs are no longer a barrier to huge civil engineering projects? -- Heron

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Coal plants source of radioactive waste? check change by 66 ...

Yep. If ORNL says it, it must be so: [1] (http://www.ornl.gov/ORNLReview/rev26-34/text/colmain) Graft

Can we include something about the possibility of extracting Helium-3 from the lunar surface? This has been bandied about for years by adocates of space exploration and space commercilization, and recently has been advocated by some within the Chinese government. RK