Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes

• WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  None! My comment may be misunderstood.

  If you’re of my generation you kind of grew up being told fusion energy was the holy grail of energy production as it’s clean and doesn’t produce a bunch of radioactive byproduct. (Stuff like SimCity etc. made fusion reactors seem like a miracle technology)

  In reality fusion also produces a massive amount of radiation and radiative byproducts, so it’s not the holy grail of energy that I think most people might assume it is.

  Fusion and Fission are two sides of the same coin, so fusion experiments are important because they aid in making fission reactors safe as well!

  I’m especially looking forward to seeing how material scientists attempt to solve the massive fast neutron radiation that fusion reactors produce, as Thorium reactors have the same issue.

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, really it’s the opposite, nuclear works already. So why not just build nuclear plants at 1/20 the cost? (and actually get some net positive energy)

  Just saying…

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  • Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    this (specific project) isn’t about harvesting energy…

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    • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I understand that, it can’t be. Because fusion power generation hasn’t all been worked out yet. Unlike fission. That’s my point.

      Also, once fusion does work, it will still be the most expensive way to generate energy man has ever devised, so there’s that too.

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