Nuclear fusion will not be regulated the same way nuclear fission is — a big win for the fusion industry

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Nuclear fusion will not be regulated the same way nuclear fission is — a big win for the fusion industry
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the nation's top nuclear watchdog, has decided nuclear fusion will not be regulated the way nuclear fission reactors are.

However, nuclear fission reactors also create waste that remains radioactive for US Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security, Jill Hruby; US Energy Secretary, Jennifer Granholm; Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Kimberly Budil; White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director, Arati Prabhakar; and National Nuclear Security Administration Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, Marvin Adams hold a press conference to announce a major milestone in...

Private fusion companies have already raised about $5 billion to commercialize and scale fusion technology and so the decision from the NRC on how the industry would be regulated was a big deal for companies building in the space. "It's definitely a very good thing. We're very pleased that the NRC Commissioners recognized that fusion energy is entirely different from nuclear fission and therefore should not be regulated in the same way,"

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Regulated?! It doesn’t even exists yet!!

What could go wrong?

What fusion industry 😂

'a big win for x industry' is the US national motto. excited to see the entire country turned into east palestine / chernobyl

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