LEARNING FROM FISSION | SPECIAL REPORT


Fusion and fission need each other


Fusion and fission may be seen as rivals but fusion technologies can learn a lot from their atom-splitting cousins. It’s not all one way either, collaboration may yet prove to be a success for both fields Judith Perera reports


Below: ITER, currently under construction in France, is one of a number of tokomak fusion devices


NUCLEAR FISSION AND NUCLEAR FUSION have generally followed separate and sometimes competitive paths of development. While the fission community tends to support the widely-held belief that fusion “is always 30 years in the future”, the fusion community claims that fusion offers huge advantages compared with fission: U


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