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It gets a lot of funding as a sort of backdoor for nuclear weapons testing.
by aqme28 5y ago
It gets a lot of funding as a sort of backdoor for nuclear weapons testing.
- DennisP 5y agoIn the U.S., nuclear weapons get a couple orders of magnitude more government money than fusion, and nobody blinks an eye. So it seems more likely that weapons work is a backdoor to get some fusion research done.
- willis936 5y agoHardly. This kind of plasma physics is nearly orthogonal to research that puts carbon-neutral electricity on the grid.