Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made from fusing atoms

Re:Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made fro... by vlovich123 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @09:04AM (#30454772)

Fission did keep getting cheaper up until FUD about accidents and explosions caused regulations that strangled it (that and overblown fears about proliferation of nuclear weapons).

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Re:Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made fro... by pfdietz on Friday February 25, 2022 @07:47AM (#30466693)

Yeah, like all those whiners complaining about how first generation BWR containment was totally inadequate.

Never mind what happened at Fukushima, right? /s

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Re:Nuclear-fusion reactor doubles record for energy made fro... by vlovich123 on Saturday February 26, 2022 @03:03AM (#30475955)

The amount of accidents and their severity does not line up with the disproportion strangling the technology has experienced at the hands of regulators. If we go down that road, all coal plants should be shut down long ago as they’ve been responsible for more radiation-caused deaths than all nuclear deaths combined (including due to the bombs if I recall correctly). That’s not even counting the deaths they’ve caused through air pollution.

Heck, nuclear is still competitive with solar and wind in terms of deaths/MW produced. And this is all the more stark considering nuclear designs stagnated 60 years or so ago. If we hadn’t divested from that technological path we’d have drastically cheaper and safer nuclear energy today and global warming potentially wouldn’t even be a problem.

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