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Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power...

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Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power...

A 2006 Google Tech Talk by Robert Bussard on inertial electrostatic confinement (polywell) fusion as a cheap, clean alternative to conventional thermonuclear reactors. He argues it could be made viable with modest funding.

Cited as Bussard's last substantial public presentation on polywell fusion and the source of his claim that about $200M would be enough.

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