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At least for a while fusion isn't about being cheaper. It's about being abundant.
by pstrateman 4y ago
At least for a while fusion isn't about being cheaper.
It's about being abundant.
- ncmncm 4y agoNeither one.
- tsimionescu 4y agoThere is no world where fusion would be more abundant without being cheaper. Sure, it's nice that you only need water to get half the fuel of a fusion power plant, but even for fission, uranium is a fraction of the cost. The reason fission isn't already providing us with abundant power is the huge cost of the extremely advanced fission reactors - which look like lego blocks compared to a fusion reactor. And 1 fusion reactor will generate nowhere near the power of the largest fission reactors we already have, in any design considered realistic today. Not to mention, the extraordinarily expensive fusion reactor you build will become too brittle to hold itself up in the span of 10 years at best, because of the neutron bombardment - turning your massive investment mostly into highly radioactive waste that you'll need expensive robots to disassemble and replace.
- ncmncm 4y agoOn the bright side, it would be low-level waste in a century. If you built it underground to begin with, you wouldn't need to bury it.