Comment on China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible
vimmiewimmie@slrpnk.net 3 days agoHello. Sorry, I couldn’t find an immediate source when I did a web search with the text you quoted. Do you have a source for it you could share, or recall when you saw it?
Thanks!
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not a quote, just a reality for non-existent blanket recycling technology and dealing with neutron energies that far exceed anything fission produces in slow neutron reactors.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I understand there’s no waste with a half life >100 years, and the activated steel can be recycled a few decades after commissioning?
www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/…/El-Guebaly SESE-KN-2.pdf
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s not particularly long but it’s very much in Superfund abandonment territory when you look at the economics of that “recycling” of low grade radioactive waste.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Recycling is definitely an important aspect of developing the technology to a maturity where it forms part of a power grid. But it’s not beyond the wit of man. If we can crack Q>5 for nuclear fusion, surely we can crack economically viable recycling for LLW. I don’t think it’s worth abandoning research on fusion over this issue.