Fusion confusion

It is one of the most expensive scientific endeavours ever undertaken, heralded as the harbinger of a new age of clean, safe, and almost limitless energy. But if the main purpose of the NIF is not actually to produce clean energy, but 'To ensure the continuing reliability of the nuclear weapons stockpile,' why are news outlets - from The Guardian to The New York Times - brushing this under the carpet?

10 August 2009

New Internationalist