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> They will be prone to catastrophic failures if plasma containment fails, easily killing everyone in or near the plant. I think that is impossible because pla
by heavenlyblue 5y ago
> They will be prone to catastrophic failures if plasma containment fails, easily killing everyone in or near the plant.
I think that is impossible because plasma isn’t actually that dense and if you turn off the magnets it immediately stops being plasma.
- tsimionescu 5y agoIt stops being plasma, but it keeps being hundreds of cubic meters of hot gas at about ten times the temperature of the (core of) the sun. It's low by mass, but it would still be extremely dangerous, and radioactive.