Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion Research

Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by ggm on Friday December 14, 2018 @08:58PM (#18686551)

It's the unavoidable up front subsidy envy. That, and fears of statist controls obligated by unimaginable risks. The actual risks experienced being lower except when corporate greed behaviour goes Fukushima.

Actual power cost and deaths per gigawatts? Unbeatable. I used to hate on nuclear, I changed my mind. End the lawsuits and let's get building again.

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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by bildung on Saturday December 15, 2018 @05:34AM (#18687894)

* > Actual power cost and deaths per gigawatts? Unbeatable.*

Power costs of nuclear plants seem to be on the expensive side of things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

Depending on the study, it's either comparable to wind or has substantially higher costs than wind.

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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by Eddh on Saturday December 15, 2018 @06:15AM (#18687982)

You can't command wind. Which makes this cost per watt comparison pointless. Need to include storage.

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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by bildung on Saturday December 15, 2018 @10:20AM (#18688657)

Those numbers obviously compare price per actually produced GWh.

Do you really think hordes of scientists around the globe do dozens of studies and have never thought about a point as trivial as this?

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Re:Experts Urge U.S. To Continue Support for Nuclear Fusion ... by jyounker on Saturday December 15, 2018 @07:59AM (#18688212)

Corporate greed and incompetence seem to be constants though.

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