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Why Cold Fusion?

Why is fusion preferable to fission?


Fission, as mentioned in my "What is cold fusion?" page, creates hazardous, radioactive nuclear waste, such as certain forms of barium and krypton. Fusion, on the other hand, creates harmless helium and hydrogen. Also, deuterium, one of the main ingredients of fusion, can be found in plain water, which happens to cover 70% of the earth's surface area. So fusion offers an almost inexhaustible supply of energy.

Fusion is not a chain reaction, so it cannot run out of control as fission can. Any disturbance to the fusion process would cause the plasma in the reactor to extinguish itself. This is a nice built-in safety feature of fusion reactors.

Fission plants can be used to secretly create materials needed for nuclear weapons. It would be far more difficult to do this at a fusion plant, since fissionable materials, needed for nuclear weapons, should not be present at a fusion plant. It would be quite simple to detect the gamma rays emitted by the fissionable matter.

Why is cold fusion preferable to hot fusion?


Hot fusion, or thermonuclear fusion, requires tremendous temperatures in order to cause the nuclei of the atoms to fuse. Cold fusion, however, does not need these high temperatures—the nuclei could fuse at room temperature. It would therefore be a wonderful alternative to hot fusion.

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