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Re:Amazon's Jeff Bezos Backs Nuclear Startup General Fusion by DennisP on Thursday May 05, 2011 @01:31PM (#2518184)
True but the other difference is that fission reactors have to be kept cool. With fusion reactors, the challenge is getting it hot enough. There's never a concern about loss of cooling, meltdown, all that mess.

Also of course, several projects are attempting boron fusion, which doesn't produce neutrons other than from a small portion of side reactions.

Re:Amazon's Jeff Bezos Backs Nuclear Startup General Fusion by cperciva on Thursday May 05, 2011 @01:38PM (#2518208)
Right, I agree that fusion reactors are inherently much safer than fission reactors -- I just wanted to make the point that they're still not completely harmless.