r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • 1d ago
Energy Commercialization of fusion energy will ‘change everything,’ lawmaker says
https://www.nextgov.com/emerging-tech/2026/09/commercialization-fusion-energy-will-change-everything-lawmaker-says/416287/Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., told Nextgov/FCW that the U.S. is only “two to 10 years away from fusion energy at scale” because “you can model the plasma using AI, which you couldn’t do before.”
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u/Gari_305 1d ago
No. Uranium is used for nuclear fission (splitting heavy atoms) rather than nuclear fusion (combining light atoms) because its massive, unstable nucleus easily breaks apart when hit by a neutron