• Sir_Osis_of_Liver@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “Why use 1 part when 6 will be more interesting.” Those engineers? I’m not saying they can’t, but I wouldn’t be putting money on it.

    Right now we can’t do fission economically despite 70 years of trying, and it’s basically using hot sticks to boil water. Suspending plasma in a magnetic field to somehow boil water is a whole other level of complexity.

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          1 year ago

          Here’s the most basic info on fusion safety I could find: https://www.iaea.org/bulletin/safety-in-fusion

          The conditions required to start and maintain a fusion reaction make a fission-type accident or nuclear meltdown based on a chain reaction impossible. Nuclear fusion power plants will require out-of-this-world conditions — temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius to achieve high enough particle density for the reaction to take place. As fusion reactions can only take place under such extreme conditions, a ‘runaway’ chain reaction is impossible

          “Fusion is a self-limiting process: if you cannot control the reaction, the machine switches itself off,”

          fusion does not produce highly radioactive, long lived nuclear waste.