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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

lol, what do you think they fuse? thoughts into prayers?

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Here's the most basic info on fusion safety I could find: https://www.iaea.org/bulletin/safety-in-fusion

The conditions required to start and maintain a fusion reaction make a fission-type accident or nuclear meltdown based on a chain reaction impossible. Nuclear fusion power plants will require out-of-this-world conditions — temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees Celsius to achieve high enough particle density for the reaction to take place. As fusion reactions can only take place under such extreme conditions, a ‘runaway’ chain reaction is impossible

“Fusion is a self-limiting process: if you cannot control the reaction, the machine switches itself off,”

fusion does not produce highly radioactive, long lived nuclear waste.

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn't say it could cause "a fission-type accident or nuclear meltdown".

It can cause something entirely different: Escaping tritium plasma. For example when the magnetic containment field fails. The plasma will still be hot and radioactive; lighter than air; able to penetrate every component of the reactor.

It can also slowly leak if not perfectly adjusted.

[–] sartalon@futurology.today 3 points 1 year ago

You are a moron.

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