{"id":384,"date":"2016-04-03T21:49:17","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T19:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/?p=384"},"modified":"2016-10-22T21:21:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T19:21:42","slug":"10-cool-facts-about-fusion-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/2016\/04\/03\/10-cool-facts-about-fusion-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Cool Facts About Fusion Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. It\u2019s natural.<\/strong> In fact, it\u2019s abundant throughout the universe. Stars \u2013 and there are billions and\u00a0billions of them <\/em>\u2013 produce energy by fusion of light atoms.<\/li>\n
  2. It\u2019s safe.<\/strong> There are no dangerous byproducts. It produces some radioactive waste, but that requires only decades to decay, not thousands of years.\u00a0\u00a0Further, any byproducts\u00a0are not suitable for production of nuclear weapons.<\/li>\n
  3. It\u2019s environmentally friendly.<\/strong> Fusion can help slow climate change. There are no carbon\u00a0emissions so fusion will not contribute to a concentration of greenhouse gases that heat the\u00a0Earth. And it helps keep the air clean.<\/li>\n
  4. It\u2019s conservation-friendly.<\/strong> Fusion helps conserve natural resources because it does not rely on\u00a0traditional means of generating electricity, such as burning coal.<\/li>\n
  5. It\u2019s international.<\/strong> Fusion can help reduce conflicts among countries vying for natural resources\u00a0due to fuel supply imbalances.<\/li>\n
  6. It\u2019s unlimited.<\/strong> Fusion fuel \u2013 deuterium and tritium<\/em> \u2013 is available around the world. Deuterium\u00a0can be readily extracted from ordinary water. Tritium can be produced from lithium, which is\u00a0available from land deposits or from seawater.<\/li>\n
  7. It\u2019s industrial scale.<\/strong> Fusion can power cities 24 hours a day regardless of weather.<\/li>\n
  8. It\u2019s exciting.<\/strong> Fusion produces important scientific and engineering breakthroughs and spinoffs in\u00a0its own and other fields.<\/li>\n
  9. It\u2019s achievable.<\/strong> Fusion is produced in laboratories around the world and research is devoted to\u00a0making it practicable.<\/li>\n
  10. It\u2019s the Future.<\/strong> Fusion can transform the way the world produces energy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Source: Princenton Plasma Physics Laboratory (Larry Bernard)<\/a><\/p>\n

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    It\u2019s natural. In fact, it\u2019s abundant throughout the universe. Stars \u2013 and there are billions and\u00a0billions of them \u2013 produce energy by fusion of light atoms. It\u2019s safe. There are no dangerous byproducts. It produces some radioactive waste, but that requires only decades to decay, not thousands of years.\u00a0\u00a0Further, any byproducts\u00a0are not suitable for production … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1206,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/1206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}