Steve Pope <[email protected]> wrote:
(snip)

> There's a slight problem with fusion: it's dirty. For a given
> power output, it has five times the neutron fluence of fission.

Well, what matters most is where the neutrons go.

The worst part of fission waste is the intermediate life fission
products, especially ones similar to important body elements.
Short life products go away fairly soon. Long life ones aren't
so radioactive.

-- glen