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Research into nuclear fusion will likely require a large investment of time and money before it might be used as an energy source.
Which statement best describes the benefits that would make the investment worthwhile?
Fusion requires a large amount of energy and occurs in stars.
Fusion produces no radioactive waste, and the fuel is plentiful.
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The second statement.
Fusion would provide very large amounts of energy from plentiful fuel (e.g., deuterium from seawater) and produces far less long‑lived radioactive waste than fission, making it a potentially clean, safe, and sustainable power source — though some neutron activation and tritium handling are real engineering issues to manage.
Fusion would provide very large amounts of energy from plentiful fuel (e.g., deuterium from seawater) and produces far less long‑lived radioactive waste than fission, making it a potentially clean, safe, and sustainable power source — though some neutron activation and tritium handling are real engineering issues to manage.
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