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Fusion vs Fission
Content1:
Everyone who may be waiting for new plants to be built to increase job prospects should check out
https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nic/icf/
If fusion is able to be made to work, why invest in the old fashioned fission when Fusion is the future. It not only doesn't produce the waste but it can make existing nuclear waste into fuel. I admit I am biased. . . I work there.
dirac:
--- Quote from: Content1 on Sep 30, 2009, 09:40 ---Everyone who may be waiting for new plants to be built to increase job prospects should check out
https://lasers.llnl.gov/programs/nic/icf/
If fusion is able to be made to work, why invest in the old fashioned fission when Fusion is the future. It not only doesn't produce the waste but it can make existing nuclear waste into fuel. I admit I am biased. . . I work there.
--- End quote ---
According to your link:
"By following our recipe, we would make a miniature star that lasts for a tiny fraction of a second."
I think the grids require a bit more stability then a fraction of second and also hundreds to thousands more of reliable megawatts. Scale-up from from a lab to industrial scale is not that easy.
thenukeman:
Fusion may not even be feasible to use as a source. It has been worked on for decades and you get microseconds of Power. Whoppe doo. Fission is known and is sustainable for a grid. Matter antimatter may even by pass fusion, who knows the future. I am biased, little bitty experiments do not equal large scale sustainable power.
Build Nuclear Fission plants NOW!!!! Use coal to make fuel for vehicles until we get a good battery for vehicles. Electric power tracks for trains sustained by Nuclear Fission Plants!! Be energy independent as possible. Make jobs here, keep jobs here!!!
Especially more HP Jobs!!!!!!!
SloGlo:
china 'n india ar building100 knew plants in da next 20 years. dare people will have lotsa lectricity for manufacture, we won't have enuff. build nukes hear 'n now. in da mean thyme, git moor money iffen ya gots two work more four da outage dats short staffed.
Content1:
Fusion is happening now, next year it will cross over to produce more energy then the costs to produce. The 14Mev neutron released from the Tritium/ Deuterium (Like in 'Spiderman II') is coming. It is that high energy neutron that can fission U238 and make spent fuel usable. It is true the lab only will fuse a small amounts of matter to prove the viability of fusion. The lab is only performing Deuterium/Dueterium now but the lasers fused it and neutron were released in recent experiments. Higher yield fusion is scheduled in spring 2010. If you can have the vision that once you actually produce energy in inertial confinement fusion it is only a matter of time to harness this energy. This is not like the magnetic confinement that never solved the problem of confinement. Using 192 lasers raise the temperature and pressure so fast, in the billionth of a second, the fusion already occurs before the target matter has a chance to expand. Think of some method to then reinsert more fuel and fire again, it is a problem of application and not theory. A source of power that is clean (helium is the waste) and is virtually endless of Dueterium in the oceans, while carbon should run out in a hundred years or so.
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