Why Canadian trash costs $30,000 per gram (video) (IMAGE)

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Why Canadian trash costs $30,000 per gram (video)

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Join our host, George, as he explores how tritium is produced and used, and why its use as a fusion fuel is completely different from its use in exit signs. As demand for clean, limitless power grows, companies are racing to secure their piece of the tritium pie, making this once-discarded nuclear waste a hot commodity.

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