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Worth noting that they are also taking Fusion seriously and looking at a test site already for an initial reactor trial. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-
by Zenst 5y ago
Worth noting that they are also taking Fusion seriously and looking at a test site already for an initial reactor trial.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-58911210 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-58911210
So nuclear in 2035 may have a different default definition of thinking in which fusion supplants fission what we currently use.
- cinntaile 5y agoWe will not have fusion by 2035, probably not even by 2050.
- Zenst 5y agoI'd take that bet. https://www.livescience.com/nuclear-fusion-reactor-sparc-2025.html https://www.livescience.com/nuclear-fusion-reactor-sparc-202...
- tuatoru 5y agoYou might be using a different definition of "have". This is a post about electricity production. "Have" would mean "producing at least 1 GWe commercially by a for-profit enterprise".
- anonporridge 5y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ4W1g-6JiY
- jmcnulty 5y agoI'll happily bet against you, but I'll let Sabine Hossenfelder explain why. https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY https://youtu.be/LJ4W1g-6JiY
- janstice 5y agoTo be fair, I’m not sure that UK will be able to have fission generators running by 2035 if they kick off a project now…
- anonporridge 5y agoFusion is going to have the same kind of economic problems as fission, high upfront cost and long lead time.
- fleischhauf 5y agoNot the radioactive waste and meltdown chance though
- yholio 5y agoFusion reactors activate their structure and can leak tritium gas which is a nuclear contaminant. Any fusion practical designs will require a liquid lithium cooling blanket that will breed the necessary quantities of tritium. They therefore share the weakness of other metal-cooled fast breeder reactors, which have proven exceptionally difficult to operate, since the highly reactive coolant will catch fire or explode upon contact with water or air. Since the coolant is radiologically active, any such 'nuclear' incident will be regarded by the press and population just as bad as the Monju issues or the Superphenix. https://www.power-technology.com/features/featurescrapping-monju-the-curtain-falls-on-japans-experimental-fast-breeder-reactor-5708445/ https://www.power-technology.com/features/featurescrapping-m...