On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:47:40 +0000, Steve Pope wrote:

> Randy Yates <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>What we SHOULD be doing (and should HAVE been doing for 40 years) is
>>channeling more funding into fusion (say, 1/10th the amount we've fed
>>wars in the last 40 years?). Once we crack that nut, no one will ever
>>worry about energy again.
>
> There's a slight problem with fusion: it's dirty. For a given power
> output, it has five times the neutron fluence of fission.

The trick is to keep it about 150 million kilometers away from the point
of use...

Cheers,

--
Andrew