You are given an opportunity to hard reset our universe (particularly, the Earth). You are also allowed to change one rule about the new universe. What rule would you change?
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Fusion makes a bomb like the sun.
Fission makes a bomb like chernobyl.
Seems similar, actually different. We're actually pretty good at fission, but fusion is way harder. The problem with fusion is that you need a huge amount of power to generate a slightly huger amount of power in return, and we are pretty crap at generating a big enough spike of energy to start the reaction and marginally worse at capturing said power after. All in all, pretty far away from practical fusion power.
Fission, by comparison, can happen when you have too many special minerals in a wrong shaped pile. We abuse this effect to boil water, and use that boiling water to make power.