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Freedom from fission
skyman8081:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---A Fusion reactor is already in the process of being built in France.
If it works out, we can kiss fission reactors and the gobs of permanent waste they prodcuce goodbye.
--- End quote ---
Psh, I think we will se breeders reactors in the same facility as a fusion plant.
Because those create a fuel supply for the fusion reactors.
If fusion does take off, it won't replace fission, we will simply add it to our arsenal of various technologies.
worker201:
Errr, Darth Plutonium, I have a question for you.
Do you think it would be a good idea for Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Mexico and Algeria, among others, to have fast breeder reactors? Do you really want every country in the world to be creating weapons-grade plutonium in their spare time?
If so, then that's very interesting.
If not, then there's one more danger of nuclear power you haven't been thinking about. Nuclear proliferation cannot proliferate in only one direction. The more common nuclear weapons and energy are, the easier they will be to get. The plutonium that comes out of a breeder will be just as dangerous raw as it is built into a fission device. And you want this stuff to be pouring out of power plants around the world, just like ice from an ice machine? That's not sane or safe.
60 years ago, nuclear energy stopped being just a power source, and became something far different. All the safety statistics in the world can't take us back to August 1, 1945.
worker201:
--- Quote from: skyman8081 ---If fusion does take off, it won't replace fission, we will simply add it to our arsenal of various technologies.
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(emphasis mine)
Very frighteningly apropos. Either that, or a very bad pun.
toadlife:
What the hell do you doomsayers suggest we use instead?
toadlife:
--- Quote from: skyman8081 ---Psh, I think we will se breeders reactors in the same facility as a fusion plant.
Because those create a fuel supply for the fusion reactors.
--- End quote ---
No they don't. Breeder reactors provide fuel for other fission based reactors. Fusion reactors don't use plutonium or enriched uramiun - they use light molecules, like hydrogen and helium.
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