Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest
Posted: 20th December 2022
Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest
We offer four stories this week about fusion - on the heals of the exaggerated and fundamentally misleading fanfare surrounding the Lawrence Livermore announcement about its fusion breakthrough. Scientifically, it was a small step forward. Practically, it has nothing to do with energy and is all about the nuclear weapons arsenal.
Fusion: What’s it really about?
Our four articles this week - by M.V. Ramana, Linda Pentz Gunter, and Stéphane Lhomme (in French and in Englishtranslation) - take a look at the reality behind the headline-making fusion “milestone” announced last week. Far from an energy “breakthrough”, its purpose is to serve the nuclear weapons sector. The bluster around even such a small step is designed to secure the “winning” lab continued (taxpayer) funding. Any talk of fusion as applicable to our energy needs is pure fantasy, remaining still decades away if achievable at all, far too expensive, and unsuited to the smaller, decentralized energy sources we will need then (and are developing now). READ MORE
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