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dpack
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tahir
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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tahir
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dpack
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the physics of fusion is easy, the engineering to boil a kettle rather than make a crater in a fraction of a second very inefficiently is a bit tricky
it can be done, so far it is a few decades in the future
the reactors and/or bangy stuff is a doddle compared to keeping a plasma stable and contained and making more energy than that requires for a useful continuous energy source
iirc a few seconds at lab scale(big lab but not even a few solar panels) of that is best so far
the thing i like with the thorium thing is that if there is a load of nasty carp lying around(500 tons pu is a low estimate of the sellafield stock) it can be used for energy and made safer, if it dont go bang it is a start
ps i know the pu is probably as oxide or similar although maybe not as a lot of that was metallic from the fast breeder experiments as well as assorted mil and civ stocks and still might be
it would not go bang without a bit of work, but knock it down to short half life stuff in a thorium reactor and boil a kettle for leccy has some merit over storing it for a few million years, half life does not mean safe after Hf, just less horrible until half of half of etc is safer
any sort of fission reactor has issues, some more than others, owt that eats plutonium is maybe ok til the Pu runs out, making more is daft.
might buy time to get a fusion kettle working |
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jema Downsizer Moderator
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Mistress Rose
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