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Well, you don't need to care about safety nearly as much.
by traverseda 4y ago
Well, you don't need to care about safety nearly as much.
- zabzonk 4y agosafety is not what is limiting fusion development on earth - we simply can't do it effectively
- DennisP 4y agoAnd even if we could, safety isn't a concern for fusion power plants.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoOfcourse we can - that's what a hydrogen bomb does! The Teller–Ulam design and the NIF do the exact same job - they heat up and compress hydrogen to trigger fusion. Its just that NIF and has to fuck around with lazers that are perfectly focused on tiny gold pellets with micrograms of hydrogen. The hydrogen bomb deals with literal tons of material at once. If you dont care about safety and environment, you concrete over one of the great lakes, heat them up by exploding thermonuclear bombs and use the steam to generate elctricity.