Slightly OT: Pete Ashdown for Utah Senator in 2006

[Carl Youngblood]

Fusion does not produce anywhere near the amount of waste that current 
fission reactors do (which is what he was referring to when he talked about 
nuclear testing), and fusion byproducts only last about 100 years, while 
fission byproducts last over 100,000 years. No doublethink there.

On 7/11/05, Michael Huston <mike at jhuston.com> wrote:
> 
> I was confused about something he said about nuclear testing and
> thought that it directly contradicted something he had said about the
> international community being very close to workable fusion power, and
> we aren't because we're backward, technologically.
>