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Viability of fusion power plants

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Criteria for the economic viability of fusion power plants

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10894-026-00577-9

He is talking about nuking Iran!

Former Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is alleging that President Trump is discussing nuking Iran in closed-door warfare meetings.

https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/214056/Trump-iran-war-nuclear-MTG

This is our DOE secretary?

 Watch FOX News Bret Baier ask serious questions and the secretary struggles answering

It is an 11-minute video.

Starting around 3'25", Baier shows his interview of Wright in November 2025 and asked hiin how things worked out.

I cannot understand an educated  grown up can fear telling the truth.

This is our DOE secretary?

https://youtu.be/7slwybiNaG0

Conspiracy theories

 No! Earth’s gravity will not disappear this week! NASA said.

https://nypost.com/2026/08/11/us-news/nasa-shoots-down-conspiracy-theories-that-earths-gravity-will-disappear-this-week/

Allegiances or security

 Going forward, how will socialist or communist associations or allegiances, impact one’s ability to acquire or maintain a Q-Clearance? Because in the past, such associations could be a clearance disqualification.

AI-designed viral genome

 AI has successfully designed completely new viruses, a landmark study in artificially generated life forms:

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aej8512

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec2657

"Although this is promising for life sciences applications, it also raises urgent biosafety and biosecurity questions. "