Saturday, October 24, 2015

Narrowing My Focus

The two questions below are my favorites from my earlier post titled "Questions About Controversy". These questions will help form my own view on the controversy of nuclear fusion's potential to be an economically equivalent source of energy to fossil fuels.

Grossalber, Markus "sewing needle with thread" 03/09/2013 via flickr.com Attribution 2.0 Generic

Is nuclear fusion a safe way to produce power?

This question is important to answer because this is one of the main sticking points of some people's apprehension about the potential use of nuclear fusion as a source of power. Nuclear fission power plants can have meltdowns as seen in the Fukushima power plant meltdown in Japan and wide spread nuclear fallout from disasters like Chernobyl in Ukraine. These disasters have caused a stigma around the word nuclear. By answering the question about whether or not nuclear fusion have major safety concerns will validate any fears about nuclear fusion plants.

What organizations (or other groups) are providing money for nuclear fusion experiments?

Finding an answer to this question would help me discover who the supporters of nuclear fusion are. If certain energy companies are investing millions or billions of dollars into nuclear fusion project knowing who they are would be an interesting topic to write about. Also, taking a look into who is supporting nuclear fusion will also allow me to make a guess to which companies are making a move to gain a foothold in the next generation of energy production.

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