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2022-10-06 Science & Technology

‘Beacon of Bountiful, Green Energy' ‐ UK Will Attempt to Build World's First Nuclear Fusion Plant

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 scheduled opening in 2040

and that is because of 'fast tracking'

and it will be a prototype; probably 50 or 100MW

not really a big deal

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-10-06 00:38|| 2022-10-06 00:38|| Front Page Top

#2 I wonder how the French Nuclear Fusion Plant is coming along?

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2022-10-06 02:32|| 2022-10-06 02:32|| Front Page Top

#3 Right now there is a huge tritium shortage which these plants use for fuel. If you can figure out how to make it without a nuclear reactor economically, you will be rich.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-10-06 03:50|| 2022-10-06 03:50|| Front Page Top

#4

Using some of the LHC super collider estimates of damages and devastation if containment is lost.

Hollywood & MSM bait-clicks will make 100's of Millions, all while having a fun time with this.

BTW:
Surprisingly, one of the better discussions on what could happen if a fusion reactor containment field failed, that I have read, was on REDDIT about 6 or 7 years ago. "

Posted by NN2N1 2022-10-06 09:02|| 2022-10-06 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Reddit threat here

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2nbn
11/what_would_happen_to_a_fusion_reactor_if_the/

Posted by Lord Garth 2022-10-06 09:16|| 2022-10-06 09:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Using some of the LHC super collider estimates of damages and devastation if containment is lost.

Not a lot. CERN already had a superconductivity failure in part of the LHC. The real damage occurred to the super-cooled magnets.

Posted by Snash Shairt9621 2022-10-06 09:29|| 2022-10-06 09:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Nuclear fusion has always been just 20 years away....since the '60s.

Posted by Mercutio 2022-10-06 09:49|| 2022-10-06 09:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Unobtainium™. Just show us a Tritium mine or a placer deposit of Helium-3

Posted by magpie 2022-10-06 11:54|| 2022-10-06 11:54|| Front Page Top

#9 The cheaper energy gets, the more it will need to be taxed. The idea of unlimited, virtually free energy won't ever happen in a world with socialist bent gummints.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-10-06 12:06|| 2022-10-06 12:06|| Front Page Top

#10 I'm not sure that accelerator estimates (or the nasty quench they had) would be altogether applicable to a fusion containment system. It takes a fraction of a second to quench a magnet, but in that time the beam has made multiple orbits--if it looks like they're losing control they "scram" the beam into a beam dump to keep from damaging anything else. I don't know what a fusion containment system looks like (no Nobel prize for me...), but I'd guess it wouldn't be as easy to dispose of the contents. And if the contents are releasing enough extra power to be useful, that's going to be a lot of hot gas.

Posted by James 2022-10-06 12:39|| https://idontknowbut.blogspot.com 2022-10-06 12:39|| Front Page Top

#11 Looks more blue than green

Posted by Skidmark 2022-10-06 14:48|| 2022-10-06 14:48|| Front Page Top

#12 idea of unlimited, virtually free energy won't ever happen in a world with socialist bent gummints.

So true.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-10-06 15:27|| 2022-10-06 15:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Good luck; we're all counting on you...

Posted by Raj 2022-10-06 19:47|| 2022-10-06 19:47|| Front Page Top

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