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Fusion isn't a commercially viable solution I agree.

The focus should be on traditional nuclear fission reactions. Indeed China are leading the development, but the USA still remains the number 1 producer in nuclear power followed by France.

While you do mention governments, it's really a popularity issue that prevents widespread acceptance and adoption.

Similar to COVID vaccinations, people need more education on Nuclear as a safe and real solution to replace carbon based energy generation technologies.

My country Australia is an example of how ineffective governments are in educating people on what the right thing to do is.

You mention cost as an issue, but it's only an issue due to man-made red tape and systems put in place by interest groups to force nuclear out of the public and make it so difficult to attain. People pandered on the same rhetoric about lithium batteries and look where we are now. The economics will work themselves out once things are placed into motion in that direction.

At the end of the day, we should be willing to pay rather than being cheap about the environment and letting natural disaster after natural disaster continue.




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