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To: Krowbar who wrote (21342)	5/6/1998 3:57:00 AM
From: LoLoLoLita	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Del, Nobody even has a believable design for a fusion test reactor to steadily and safely generate more power from fusion than what they have to feed it to trigger the reaction. All they're trying to do now is put together some test reactors. But none of these are for steady-state, just pulses of power. Commercial power is decades away, if ever. Unavoidable neutron activation of the structural materials means that the reactor itself will become radioactive, and will generate radioactive waste. Here is my hot tip for the night. Before we get a working fusion power reactor, we'll have figured out how to use plain sunlight to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen, and we'll be using hydrogen in combustion turbines and chemical fuel cells. The ITER home page says "early part of the next century" for steady burning: aries.ucsd.edu Japan is big on fusion. They're saying the year 2050 for commercial power: jaeri.go.jp David