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Originally Posted by red-beard View Post
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...
With the right neutron energies, U238 will burn just fine.

Fusion reactors, if they ever exist, won't be some cuddly benign thing that anybody will want in their back yard.
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