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Yeah but are you beating fission, something like: https://www.moltexflex.com/flex-reactor/ https://www.moltexflex.com/flex-reactor/ A small fission reactor ca
by panick21_ 4y ago
Yeah but are you beating fission, something like:
https://www.moltexflex.com/flex-reactor/ https://www.moltexflex.com/flex-reactor/
A small fission reactor can do almost everything a fusion reactor can. Fusion fuel is higher density, but fission density is already not an issue.
Fusion still needs to heat water, that's where much of the cost comes from.
- devmor 4y agoA small fission reactor is also incredibly dangerous and will always require exotic material. A fusion reactor does not pose environmental risk and could eventually run on highly available basic elements for everything after the initial "startup" once the technology progresses.
- panick21_ 4y agoWhat exotic materials? Molten salts and steel is most of it. These reactors have essentially 0% chance to have airborn escape of radiation. An fusion reactors don't actually run on basic elements. The require a fuel that is specially breed. And when they operate they have radioactive materials that can go airborn.