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Political Factoid
Controlled Nuclear Reactions
| Fission |
Fusion |
| Objective is to get power by splitting atoms |
Objective is to get power by joining atoms |
| Nuclear Power Plants |
Nuclear Research Laboratories |
| Private companies (e.g., GE) |
Government laboratories (e.g., Brookhaven, Fermi, Lawrence Livermore, Sandia National Laboratories) |
| Private sector employees |
Government employees |
| Tax credits; Tax exempt bonds |
Government spending cutbacks |
| For big profits |
Not for profit |
| Applied technology* |
Basic government research |
| Produces the most-toxic and most-hazardous waste** |
Produces safer (i.e., shorter half-life) byproducts |
| cf. |
1099,
1216,
3444,
2139,
2144,
2416,
1110,
1138,
1143,
1228,
1200,
1208,
1332,
1413
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| * |
From prior government research
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For which no one has yet found a solution
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This parallels a comparison of the two primary political parties
... albeit in Congress they tend to go "nuclear" with uncontrolled reactions.
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