The Environment

[Jonathan]

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Well then that's good that it's not nuclear power. What PPPL is doing has absolutely nothing to do with nuclear power.

Correction; fusion is as much nuclear as fission. It is the nuclei that are used to generate power and thus it is nuclear power. Nuclear power, my dear JD, is not dependant on whether you combine deuterium nuclei or cleave uranium.

Before you reply I might add that fusion would be a lot safer than fission and that it unlike fission requires extremely high temperatures which result in plasma, but it is still nuclear power.