ITER would be "hot fusion." No one really works on cold fusion -- that was just a little thing that sizzled in and out of the headlines awhile ago, but seems to stay alive in the minds of science fiction writers. The only possibility of something a little bit like cold fusion was called muon-catalyzed fusion, which was a brilliant idea put forward by some brilliant people, but it doesn't work in practice... unfortunately:-(
Heh heh, so much on the "not water" part. I guess I wrote this kinda fast -- all I was thinkin was that tritium is not the SAFEST material in the world (I get that tritium != water), though I don't know enough to comment more than that.
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ITER would be "hot fusion." No one really works on cold fusion -- that was just a little thing that sizzled in and out of the headlines awhile ago, but seems to stay alive in the minds of science fiction writers. The only possibility of something a little bit like cold fusion was called muon-catalyzed fusion, which was a brilliant idea put forward by some brilliant people, but it doesn't work in practice... unfortunately :-(
Heh heh, so much on the "not water" part. I guess I wrote this kinda fast -- all I was thinkin was that tritium is not the SAFEST material in the world (I get that tritium != water), though I don't know enough to comment more than that.