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Re:Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees by afraca on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @02:40AM (#18448243)
Can either you or your parent poster say what "short lived" and "longer-lived" would be roughly?
Re:Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees by Nimelrian on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @04:08AM (#18448549)
Longer-lived would be thousands of years for the steel structure until it is manually handable. 50-100 years for remote handling.

> It was shown that wait times are required in the order 50–100 years for the remote handling recycling option and hundreds (Li4SiO4) to thousands (Eurofer) years for hands-on handling.

Source: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-3115(02)01273-4

Re:Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees by nielsole on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @05:59AM (#18448991)
I recall from a talk a couple of years back ( so not sure I got it correctly) that after 50-100 years you can basically walk into the fusion reactor without having to worry about radiation.
Re:Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees by perlgeek on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @03:03AM (#18448318)
https://www.quora.com/Does-nuclear-fusion-produce-waste says "typically less than 30 years for neutron activated fusion chamber materials"