MAGANOMICS: Fusion Energy Needs to be President Trump’s 21st Century Manhattan Project by Lawrence Kadish
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21385/maganomics-fusion-energy
America’s next great economic revolution — to be spearheaded by President Donald J. Trump — is currently being studied by the preeminent polling firm, John McLaughlin Associates.
A poll will investigate America’s next great economic and technological frontier: clean, limitless, inexpensive energy through nuclear fusion by a made in America nuclear reactor superior to China’s tokamak.
This new 21st Century Manhattan Project would entail a trailblazing, all-out effort to compete against Communist China, already investing billions into this field.
Just as President Franklin D. Roosevelt headed the original Manhattan Project, when America raced to develop a nuclear weapon before scientists in Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan could unlock its enormous deadly power and use it against the Allies in World War II, Trump could usher in a new Clean Controlled Fusion Energy Revolution.
In that era, Roosevelt recognized the existential threat and directed all necessary resources to win that fateful race. Today, we know China is investing enormous sums into fusion energy research that seeks to create a sustained reaction that would be channeled to create unlimited electricity. America must create technology that is far superior to China’s tokamak fusion reactors.
We know Trump is rightfully cautious about restarting nuclear power plants because he has cautioned if something goes wrong, the legacy of contamination from plants using nuclear fission will be felt for generations, as we have seen from Chernobyl. That is why nuclear fusion is the pathway to America’s future. If, for any reason, there is a technical problem, the systems merely shut down.
The Manhattan Project of World War II demonstrated what our nation is capable of achieving when a president directs America’s talent, resources and unrelenting focus on a matter of national survival. Few appreciate this better than Trump. We are now at that juncture in history. Fusion energy needs to be Trump’s 21st Century Manhattan Project.
This is a technology race that the United States cannot afford to lose. For America First, no one can head such a crucial project better than Trump.
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