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Re: According to General Fusion, just 1kg of fusion fuel can power 10,000 homes for a year.

Thorium 232 can't be weaponised, but the U-233 bred from it in a thorium reactor is fast fissile.

Both the US (Teapot - MET) and USSR (RDS-37) exploded composite plutonium U-233 devices in the 1950s and India claims to have done the same in 1998 in the Pokhran 2 test.

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