[Southack]

The big picture is that Fusion energy offers only one advantage over fission: no nuclear waste.

Well, who says that nuclear waste is a big problem? Oh sure, it is a *political* problem, but in the grand scheme of things it's simply toxic garbage, of which we already make plenty every day.

So all of the money spent pursuing fussion technology will simply buy us less nuclear waste. We don't get more energy. We don't get cheaper energy. We don't get safer energy.

Just less waste. That's all that fussion gives us.

So all of this talk about spending BILLION$ on fussion is the same as trying to spend Billions on waste disposal.

...Because nuclear fussion simply means less waste.

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[RightWhale]

one advantage over fission: no nuclear waste

Sure about that? How sure?

[Physicist]

The big picture is that Fusion energy offers only one advantage over fission: no nuclear waste.

Not true. Fusion energy offers unlimited fuel without any dependence on foreign sources. The same cannot be said about fission. The reserves of fissionable materials are comparable to the reserves of oil, but most of them are in foreign countries. The reserves for fusion power are effectively infinite and effectively ubiquitous.