General Fusion's New Approach

For BSUS 6600 students there were some questions last class about the state of nuclear fusion.Here is a link to a story about Canadian company General Fusion. General Fusion is a venture capital backed start up company trying a different approach to nuclear fusion.

In related news, here is a link to a story about Terrapower, a start up company partly funded by Bill Gates.Terrapower is working on an advanced nuclear reactor that uses the more abundant uranium 238 rather than the rare uranium 235 used in conventional reactors.

Or, perhaps more research should be done on the liquid fluoride thorium reactor. The fact that China is now interested in this technology should give other countries a push.