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Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by azinman2 on Thursday December 15, 2022 @06:14PM (#34007162)
You’re making false equivalences, and ignoring all of the fundamental differences between the technologies. The materials involved are different, the chain reactions are different, the kinds of radiation and half lives are different, the way you build the cores are different (and are still being worked on for fusion).

The entire reason why people are working on fusion IS the fact that it’s much much safer due to all of the key differences. That doesn’t mean there aren’t lessons from fission to transfer, just as lessons from ICE cars have gone to EVs.

Re:US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved by rrrrrrrrrrrr2 on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:15PM (#34020504)
Fair enough. What you said sounds promising.

My point stands though: we're not doing fusion at scale yet, so we'll see.