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Environment & Energy

Ghost Dog

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3. This is a very important article.

Reply to jpak (Original post)

Fri May 24, 2019, 12:53 PM

May 2019

We all need to learn to consume less energy, basically.

But... fissioning thorium would be safer than fissioning uranium?

And, is the ITER fusion project moving forward as fast as it could?

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