Limitless Green Energy
On June 19, Darden Adams of theSOP.org discussed how Inertial Confinement Fusion may provide a clean alternative to traditional nuclear energy. Since 2009, scientists at the National Ignition Facility in California began tests to utilize high-powered lasers to ignite a deuterium and tritium fusion reaction. Initial tests in 2012 failed to ignite a reaction, but scientists are hopeful that further testing and research will lead to success. From the article:
“Over the past fifty years many minor nuclear accidents and the disasters at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima, have damaged public opinion, especially from environmental groups concerned with the longterm effects of hazardous waste. But what if there were an alternative with no dangerous waste and even greater efficiency than traditional nuclear plants. Enter nuclear fusion.
For decades, a working nuclear fusion power plant has been the holy grail of physicists and nuclear engineers. Of course, there is a catch. Nuclear fusion requires so much energy to achieve that for energy production it seemed impractical until recently.”
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