Nuclear fusion energy
broke: bunkers all over the country
WOKE: building nuclear plants near your borders so that if they get attacked they poison the invader
Wow amazing.
I believe we'll have the trend of fusing hydrogen atoms before we harness the power of fusing carbon atoms like how neutron stars use their energy.
Stop giving me ideas.
Isn't it impossible for a fusion reactor to cause a chernobyl tier catastrophe?
yes since a fusion reactor that generates more power than it uses has been impossible to create at all
Yes, in the event of a containment failure the reaction will cease. Even if the reactor was completely split open, say, if it were bombed, it would only release a small amount of radioactive gas into the environment (and most of those radioisotopes would have a very short half life).
Net power production changes nothing with regard to danger (or lack thereof) in this particular context.
H-how? ITER is going nowhere, and researchers I've talked to have been extremely sceptical about it ever being viable…
I'm for hardcore denuclearization on Earth, both militarily and civilian, until the waste issue is fixed. However, lunar nuclear power to extract silicon from lunar regolith/"Soil" would give us the ability to mass-manufacture silicon crystals in vacuum conditions, aka solar panels. Likewise, lunar nuclear power would be useful without the contaminating effects of terrestrial accidents. Solar power for Earth, Nuclear Power for the Moon.