The experimental fusion reactors, he suggests, could be used to clean up the waste generated by the fission reactors.
Tri-Alpha wants to bring nuclear fusion reactors to market, according to sources.
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Right now, those vibrations require more initial energy than the reactions produce, the same problem that has stymied efforts to produce fusion reactors.
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They also use the term LENR to distinguish these reactors from the chemical cold fusion reactors sought by researchers beginning in the 1980s.
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There are elaborate experimental fusion reactors all over the globe, and they have made steady but achingly slow progress toward a controlled, self-sustaining burn.
Some visionaries think that this helium might find a market on Earth, though its main use would be in fusion reactors that do not yet exist.
But the Moon is a source of rare earth elements, as well as Helium-3, a possible future fuel for nuclear fusion reactors (if we ever actually invent them).
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Mining the moon for fuel used in nuclear fusion reactors is among NASA's 200-plus set of mission goals and could precipitate another reason for other countries and private investors to join future lunar exploration.
The latter are reminiscent in scale to the putative nuclear-fusion reactors, said to mimic processes in stars, e.g. the sun, of which a working model is not expected for at least another 60 years.
Part of the reason why commercial fusion reactors have always been 30 years away is that increasing the size of the reactors to something big enough to be a power plant proved harder than foreseen.
Few believe in fusion now, though uranium-powered fission reactors may be coming back into fashion.
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That may be their only hope: government budgets for fusion are being squeezed as hard as the contents of the reactors they pay for.
However, while mining helium-3 from the moon will be one challenge, extracting energy from it is another, as it relies on nuclear fusion, rather than fission used in today's nuclear reactors.
The Earth is warmed naturally by its own nuclear fission reactors within and also by the sun, that big nuclear fusion reactor.
Many of those reactors, however, have now been mothballed, so using them as fusion torches would probably encounter little opposition from their owners.
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