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4. I find your knowledge of neutronics to be extremely unimpressive.
Sun Dec 26, 2021, 07:41 PM
Dec 2021

I personally don't believe that fusion reactors will be ready for prime time in the lifetime of anyone over the age of 20.

This said, item #2 in your list is just silly. The management of neutrons has been technologically and commercially in practice for more than 3/4 of a century. My son, as an undergraduate, 2 years ago, at Oak Ridge, worked with people doing precisely that, working with and controlling neutrons.

One has to be intellectually and morally a lightweight to believe that there are any radioactive materials on this planet in commercial use that have killed anything like the 18,000 people who die every day (from air pollution) because we don't utilize neutrons more widely.

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