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Fission
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Fusion

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Advantages and Disadvantages

Advantages

  • Depending on fuel, good availability
  • Simple combustion process can directly heat or generate electricity
  • Inexpensive
  • Easily distributed

Disadvantages

  • Probable contributor to global warming
  • Questionable availibility of some fuels...major price swings based on politics of oil regions
  • Cause of acid rain

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