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zapkitty wrote:

As I understand it, aneutronic fusion wouldn’t be much use for cleaning up fission waste, since what you want to do with such waste is transmute the problematic nuclei, which entails a neutron source.

Nope… neutrons can be generated without a neutronic fusion power source.

Right, my point was not that all neutron sources were fusion-based, but that aneutronic fusion is, by definition, [em]not[/em] a neutron source, and neutrons are what is needed.

In fact anyone can generate neutrons. All you need is electricity.

Yes, but aneutronic fusion does not have some special advantage in radioactive waste transmutation [em]beyond[/em] producing cheap power. There is nothing [em]inherent[/em] in the aneutronic fusion process that makes it a good way to clean up radioactive waste.