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Originally Posted by red-beard
The point of Fusion is it is supposed to be cleaner, not producing the radioactive particles that fission produces. This is not actually the case.
Now, what would happen if you put U238 in the area around the laser? Great way to make plutonium.
We have tons, and I do mean tons, of Plutonium. We need to design reactors to use Plutonium and get rid of all the stuff we've been making all of these years. We really should build and operate breeder reactors, so that we turn all of the "useless" U238 into Plutonium. This extends our nuclear supply by a factor of almost 30.
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U238 has great military value as both armor and penetrator material.