It produces a lot less radioactive waste than fission. However, I strongly suspect the Chinese claims are exaggerated by at least an order of 10, if not 100.
......but could a drunk redneck light a cigarette with it?
Fusion power possible in next 10 years, speculate scientists.
We can’t have that! Where’s the EPA when you need it? Our children will grow up in a hydrogenless world unless we act now to save all those baby hydrogens from being burnt alive!
There was a time when that would have made me chuckle. Not anymore. China will own us. We've squandered our own destiny.
50 million degrees? Wow, that’s almost as hot as the center of the earth!
/algore
Basically we’re just gonna blow up one day. Won’t even have time to wonder what happened.
No lie about that. The fusion reaction produces only high energy neutrons, which can’t travel very far before they are absorbed by heavy surrounding walls of the reactor. There are no radioactive, heavy metal isotopes produced.
Man! You could cook a steak like ... THAT [snap]!
Hydrogen is easy.
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Interesting....45M Deg would be the Coulomb barrier for D-T reaction.
Length of reaction seems to indicate actual fusion.
Of course they needed a fission reactor to create the Tritium but impressive if its real.
And why should we believe your contention?
Forget for a minute that this is a Chinese press release.
Let’s assume the German account is accurate.
On what scientific basis do you contend fusion power creates radioactive waste?
Fusion reactions do not generate any radioactive waste because any fissionable/fusionable material is converted through the reaction process to energy and combusted during the process, even to a mote of dust.
The problem is all in the electromagnetic containment of the process, and the physical constraints of the combustion vessel. A simple electrical power nano-second hiccup could be enough to disable such things. Lessening of the electromagnetic containment of the fusion process, depnding on how well it is built, might damage the containment vessel construction. Since there is no contained ‘pile’ as in fission reactors, unchecked fusion processes keep going as long as there is ‘matter’ to convert to energy
Now, since CERN has been built, with all the monies, time, engineering at hand, and THEY experienced an electromechanical failure in the first two weeks after firing up the machinery ....
I believe the CHICOMS are fudging their data, and have shortchanged their own construction sites weith bypassed safeties, which might result in a real China Syndrome.
I understand what they did. Can someone explain why this is a big deal?
Now how can you even keep a thermometer from melting when you try to take the temperature. It would melt the glass and vaporize the mercury...