The exhibit, according to the museum, brings together an extensive collection -- more than 60 objects associated with Lincoln's life, including an iron wedge used to split wood in the 1830s and his famous top hat, which he wore the night he was shot at Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
With the blended reactor, the neutrons from fusion reactions would wedge themselves into the nuclei of this waste, making them unstable enough to split and produce heat.
