What Richter was pitching is the power of the sunand stars at the serviceof the Argentine...

What Richter was pitching is the power of the sun
and stars at the service
of the Argentine government, hydrogen fusion. Now nuclear fusion's
the Holy Grail, if you will, because in principle, it can generate huge,
vast amounts of power, and also,
the byproducts of it are not very radioactive. [narrator] Nuclear fusion
is the opposite of nuclear fission, of nuclear fission, the destructive power that fuels the atomic bomb. Instead of splitting an atom
to create energy, atoms are smashed together. The reaction produces
a self-sustaining limitless source of power no other country had yet
come close to achieving. The problem
with nuclear fusion, in a nutshell, it's really,
really hard to do