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Nuclear fusion, and magnetic air pollution

The Naked Scientists Podcast

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The Challenges of Commercial Fusion Power

Fusion has the potential to be a revolutionary energy source. Unlike nuclear fission, which our current power plants are based on, fusion energy would produce very little radioactive waste. The fuel that we use for fusion is readily available. We can extract a lot of the fuel from seawater and then we can breed the other fuel in the reactors themselves.

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