A reader writes:
You fell for a sleight of hand with your headline on the possible breakthrough in controlled fusion. The "clean" implies that there are not any dirty radioactive isotopes being used or being produced as with nuclear fission reactors. In principle, nuclear fusion could be a radioisotope free process but the one using deuterium-tritium pellets is definitely not -- tritium is radioactive.
This is too bad. I happen to support nuclear power but I do not think these DOE PR...
Published on June 19, 2010 13:21