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I imagine that the popular view of fusion will be better, because of the impossibility of meltdown and the much easier to manage spent materials. If that transl
by wcarss 6y ago
I imagine that the popular view of fusion will be better, because of the impossibility of meltdown and the much easier to manage spent materials. If that translates into less NIMBYism, the regulatory costs should be much lower.
If the inputs can then ever be scaled, it could present a gateway to powerplant "mass production", which would be truly revolutionary. Especially for those crazy rocket concepts!
- pfdietz 6y agoIf a fission reactor had a power density as low as a fusion reactor, it would also be impossible to melt down, just because the thermal inertia of the core would be so large. Of course, it would also be uneconomical, because of the cost of that larger core (just as a fusion reactor would be uneconomical.)