Mast Upgrade: UK experiment could sweep aside fusion hurdle
Yeah, but the idea that fusion is going to be some huge improvement over modern fission reactors is hype at best. It's already quite clear that the plants will be much more complicated and expensive to build and run than fission plants. There's all sorts of other problems too, from copious nuclear waste to the ugly fact that a fusion plant could easily be used to create weapons grade Uranium. [thebulletin.org]