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Nuclear power plants use the nuclear fission reaction to produce electricity. What is the advantage of producing electricity by fusion reaction?
Topic: Nuclear physics / radioactivity
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Fusion can release very large energy from light fuels and produces far less long-lived radioactive waste than fission.
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