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What's far more interesting has little to do with ITER. Who is paying for these hit peaces?

His last peace was linked and had a long diatribe about this issues with tritium breading starts with "the most comprehensive analyses indicate that there can be up to a 15 percent surplus in regenerating tritium." Adds plenty of "cannot make up" etc and ends with "approximately 10 percent of the injected tritium was never recovered."

1.15 * 0.9 > 1

Looking at them both they are very careful not to directly lie while being as misleading as possible.




> Who is paying for these hit pieces?

https://thebulletin.org/ is an anti-nuclear activist organization. Producing articles like this are its function. It lists its funders in its annual report ... https://thebulletin.org/annual-report


This puzzles me immensely since nuclear fusion is far more save than nuclear fission. So if you're an organization opposed to the dangers of nuclear, wouldn't you, pragmatically, want a less-harmful alternative to exist?




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