Whats the big difference between Focus Fusion reactors and current nuclear reactors?
In current nuclear reactors, energy is produced through nuclear fission. Here, a neutron breaks apart a uranium nucleus releasing energy and more high-energy neutrons. The nuclear fragments produced are highly radioactive. They naturally decay and give off their own energetic radiation. In addition, the neutrons smash into the nuclei of atoms in the reactor structure transmuting them to radioactive nuclei as well. All of these radioactive atoms constitute nuclear waste. The form of nuclear fusion that the US government has funded, which uses deuterium and tritium as fuel, also produces some radioactive waste although far less than fission. Tritium, a form of hydrogen with two additional neutrons, is itself radioactive. When deuterium and tritium nuclei fuse together they produce nuclei of harmless and non-radioactive helium and a neutron. But the high energy neutron that carries most of the energy of the reaction can again smash into the reactor’s structure making it radioactive. In fo
