I wishBut your young
Progress has been made, it's just not quite there in terms of it being sustainable and reliable.Except fusion has made no real progress in my lifetime, despite supposedly being the holy grail
Fusion was the next big thing 50 years ago.... and the issues seem to still be the same... long term large scale containment..Progress has been made, it's just not quite there in terms of it being sustainable and reliable.
I'm pretty sure 20-30 years ago, there weren't private fusion reactors running at 15 million degrees.
The other thing is the military lost interest as they got a weapon from it, and thus funding was reduced for a long timeFusion was the next big thing 50 years ago.... and the issues seem to still be the same... long term large scale containment..
Not aware fusion was ever of interest as a weapon ….The other thing is the military lost interest as they got a weapon from it, and thus funding was reduced for a long time
A h-bomb or a thermo nuclear warhead is a fusion weaponNot aware fusion was ever of interest as a weapon ….
It is, but the technology doesn’t really translate much into power for a fusion reactor, though some of the physics obviously does (deuterium and tritium are the sources in fusion weapons and are the same fuel sources used for a fusion reactor) - but in a weapon it’s over in a brief instant and requires a fission weapon primary stage to initiate the fusion process.Not aware fusion was ever of interest as a weapon ….
But the big thing is, progress is being made to solve that problem.Fusion was the next big thing 50 years ago.... and the issues seem to still be the same... long term large scale containment.
Was pro nucleair energy most of my life but after Fukushima that changed. If a nation like Japan cannot do this I think it would be pedantic to think we can. (I equate the Brittish and the Dutch for the sake of argument here).
Our and our childrens lives should change drasticly; less commuting, less traveling, less consuming and saving energy to be able to strech it to the moment we have a better way of making it, and that migth be fusion.
Think we now got our first small warning but we need a stronger one.
What. Prevent an earthquake?Was pro nucleair energy most of my life but after Fukushima that changed. If a nation like Japan cannot do this I think it would be pedantic to think we can. (I equate the Brittish and the Dutch for the sake of argument here).
Our and our childrens lives should change drasticly; less commuting, less traveling, less consuming and saving energy to be able to strech it to the moment we have a better way of making it, and that migth be fusion.
Think we now got our first small warning but we need a stronger one.
Japan seems a as good or better developped country as UK or NL's, yet they didn't manage and now a vast area will be no go till?
There are reactorvessels in use within a 100km radius from my home that have known cracks, but they cannot afford to stop using them. If they go wrong when wind blows northeast the city of Cologne had to be evaquated. Do not think these accidents cannot happen.
Japan seems a as good or better developped country as UK or NL's, yet they didn't manage and now a vast area will be no go till?
There are reactorvessels in use within a 100km radius from my home that have known cracks, but they cannot afford to stop using them. If they go wrong when wind blows northeast the city of Cologne had to be evaquated. Do not think these accidents cannot happen.
I think the whole area has been cleaned up now. I remember reading they'd removed about a meter of soil from hundreds of square kilometers of land (Or something along those lines). Not sure what they do with the soil, wash it and put it back perhaps?Japan seems a as good or better developped country as UK or NL's, yet they didn't manage and now a vast area will be no go till?
Accidents always have multiple causes, often unexpected ones.The place was swamped by a massive tsunami, not many of them around this neck of the woods.