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		OJFord on Dec 17, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Will We Run Out of Helium? What's the distinction between product and by-product then? I called it a 'by-product' because it's not the product we're actually aiming for, not the point of the exercise - if oxygen were produced instead (by whatever science-ignoring magic) we wouldn't mind.

tapland on Dec 18, 2019 [–]

But in Fusion what we are doing is intentionally creating helium. It's the mechanism we want.

In fission it's a byproduct in that it's not our main intention.

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