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From personal experience, "nuclear = bad" is a thing. That said, I agree that as things stand today, fusion research is no panacea to climate change. However,
by cygx 6y ago
From personal experience, "nuclear = bad" is a thing.
That said, I agree that as things stand today, fusion research is no panacea to climate change. However, note that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was ratified in '92, and if we'd decided to go all-in on fusion back then, who knows where we'd be at today...
- runarberg 6y agoJust because some people believe blindly that “nuclear = bad”, that doesn’t mean they won’t change their opinion of fusion once they receive an adequate explanation on how fusion is different from fission. I’ve personally never met anybody in the wild that disagrees with fusion power because of our current track record with fission power. I.e. the believe that “nuclear = bad” does not equate to the believe that “fusion = bad”. So honestly I don’t believe that there exists people in the wild who’s opinion is: “No to fusion! Because nuclear = bad”, and if they do exists, I don’t think they are of anywhere near size and numbers required to influence public funding.