A seemingly vast nuclear program hasn’t yet been assembled despite being conceived in 1985 according to a recent news report. The as called nuclear fusion program differs from the usual nuclear fissure programs which reportedly split the atom. The world’s largest nuclear fusion plant is the Iter project in France, cost of which so far is an estimated €20 billion despite not generating any electricity. The idea is that when heavy hydrogen atoms fuse together copious amounts of energy are released, but according to the report, this is said to require a temperature of 150 million degrees. Bad for the environment; and the project has been assessed in retrospect as a commercial failure.
Besides the unwanted side effect of greenhouse gases, nuclear processes use uranium; the extraction of which is believed to deplete the soil of the components necessary for the survival of organisms, including food crops.