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China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant (www.neimagazine.com)

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The fusion-fission hybrid will use high-energy neutrons produced by a fusion reaction to trigger fission in surrounding materials thereby boosting energy output and potentially reducing long-lived nuclear waste.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This seems like a good step on the way to developing the technology necessary to build a fission plant in the future.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm sure China will share a lot of technological innovations as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

Everybody has been stealing each other's nuclear secrets for decades.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Just like the US "shares" its IP

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

B..b..but murica bad!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I don't imagine the US is going to be contributing much to science in the future.