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From: eugene@aurora.UUCP (Eugene miya)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics
Subject: Re: alternate, hopefully safe, energy sources
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Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 14:42:08 EDT
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The 'promise' of low waste fusion is somewhat bogus.  There are lots of
unknowns still regarding containment.  The best figures I have heard
say fusion vessels would have a lifetime of at best 30-40 years
[roughly equivalent to fission vessels] due to neutron bombardment.
After that, you would have a radioactive heap of zirconium steel
alloy.

Let's proceed with fusion research, but let's not make the same mistakes
we made with fission.

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Res. Ctr.