Scientific innovation lacking in America

It took less than 20 years from the discovery of fission to the development of a fully functioning nuclear reactor to produce energy – a system which remains controversial and unsafe today.

Over 55 years later the world is nowhere near functional, controlled, safe and clean fusion energy.

Once the best and brightest American and the world had to offer focused on the greater needs of humanity, scientists were heroes tackling massive energy and other problems.

Marty Hoffert, a retired NYU physicist and a senior fellow at Breakthrough Institute said over the next few years nuclear options must still be explored. Scientists, he explained, believe nuclear fission can be made safer and used widely, but in the long-run fusion research must be undertaken as well.

“It [fusion] is a very tough problem,” he said. “We’re going to solve it eventually.”

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