Posted on 10/04/2022 1:04:23 PM PDT by Red Badger
Inside the reactor - IMAGE SOURCE,UK ATOMIC ENERGY AUTHORITY
Nuclear fusion reactors need to reach very high temperatures and pressure
A power station has been chosen to be the site of the UK's, and potentially the world's, first prototype commercial nuclear fusion reactor.
Fusion is a potential source of almost limitless clean energy but is currently only carried out in experiments.
The government had shortlisted five sites but has picked the West Burton A plant in Nottinghamshire.
The plant should be operational by the early 2040s, a UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) spokesman has said.
The government had pledged more than £220m for the STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) programme, led by the UKAEA.
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But earlier this year, the government confirmed it would cease assessment of Ratcliffe-on-Soar and restart assessment of West Burton, which was named as a reserve site when the shortlist was announced.
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Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg announced the government's choice in a speech at the Conservative Party conference in Birmingham.
"Over the decades we have established ourselves as pioneers in fusion science and as a country our capabilities to surmount these obstacles is unparalleled, and I am delighted to make an announcement of a vital step in that mission," he said.
"The plant will be the first of its kind, built by 2040 and capable of putting energy on the grid, and in doing so will prove the commercial viability of fusion energy to the world."
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Don't you first need a working design before you go picking out where to build it?
The Red Queen says, “Build first, design second!”..............
Fusion is always 20 years away.
I don’t know. It’s just 20 years off.
That’s why they are staring to build it now, so they will be ready when it gets here.........................😜
Another boondoggle, like solar and wind.
Molten-salt thorium reactors are well understood, cheap, efficient, and safe, but they won’t get built because the right people won’t make any money.
Well, it says the funding is for “Spherical Tokamak” which is a working design. Now that’s not necessarily the same as the design being efficient enough for commercial use, but it is working.
They weren’t biting this morning. Should keep fission.
"...If nuclear fusion can be successfully recreated on Earth...."
IF. Big-Eye, Big-Eff.
Do you know that "if" is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you....
They're basically gambling that the remaining problems will be solved in time to have a production fusion reactor ready to install before 2040.
If they strike lucky and the gamble pays off, they'll be in the catbird seat. But if they don't, they'll be left looking like the cat that ate the canary. Between Wokeism, Watermelonism, unfettered Muhammadan immigration and Charles III, I'll be mildly surprised if the formerly great Britain still exists in 2040.
Before then they'll probably siphon off all the fusion project funding so there'll be enough money to build all the mosques they'll need to support their new state religion.
“Fusion is a potential source of almost limitless clean energy but is currently only carried out in experiments. “
But they are going to build a plant? To do what?
Does not compute.......
“If you build it, they will come.”
That’s what plants crave.
I suppose someone has to build one before you have a “working design”.
But I do think they will have a few kinks and wrinkles to work out.
They’re claiming it’s only 18 years away.🙄
It will have what plants and the planet need...
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It’s what plants crave.🤪
Yah beat me to it.😁🤪
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