In the last few years nuclear fusion by magnetic confinement has made great progress. However, an economical pure fusion power plant is still many years away. In this article I will discuss how a combination of fusion and fission power might be much closer, and might be very helpful both to fission and fusion power.

Topics
Nuclear fusion, Nuclear energy, Plasma confinement
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