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> The key to a successful nuclear reactor of any kind is to generate, confine, and control a blob of super-heated matter, called a plasma — a gas that has reach
by mdellabitta 11y ago
> The key to a successful nuclear reactor of any kind is to generate, confine, and control a blob of super-heated matter, called a plasma — a gas that has reached temperatures of more than 180 million degrees Fahrenheit.
Um, what? I'm about to pass a nuclear fission plant on my way to work, and I surely hope there are no plasmas in that.
AKA, they mean fusion reactor.
- XorNot 11y agoNucleons are reacting. It's most definitely a nuclear reactor of some type.
- kohanz 11y agonuclear reactor of any kind They're not disputing the nuclear term, but fission vs. fusion.
- mdellabitta 11y agoDing ding ding. Also, hello from Indian Point, Buchanan, NY! I can see a containment dome as I write this. Next up on my Snake Plisskin-esque commute is literally going through Sing Sing prison: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1506265,-73.8700067,613m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@41.1506265,-73.8700067,613m/dat... (those train tracks are the Metro North Hudson line, among other things)