Fusion News, April 17, 2024

The disconnect between "Fusion" and "Nuclear Fusion" reminds me of when the term NMR was changed to MRI so that people wouldn't be scared of the word "nuclear" in the imaging machine that is going to scan them. Maybe it should be called "Particle Merging Energy" :D

Very good ❤

Dr Keslerrrrrrr! :D

I thought fusion and nuclear fusion was the same. I learn something new everyday.

Great video, thanks! Informative and well presented, very good use of imagery and videos. Love the earrings :-) Keep up the good work FIA!

This updates are really appreciated.

The emotional baggage related to nuclear power is huge. If one country leads the way everyone will notice the benifits though. Looking forward to seeing humanity make a star.

Fission and fusion are inherently linked, there are some internal processes that are an exact mirror, fission has beta decay of electrons, fusion has beta decay of positrons. Fission is about 1M times more energy dense than chemical energy, fusion claims to be about 3.5 better still, that tiny extra amount has a huge cost though. Fission would have very high perfomance at only 1000K. Fusion is practically impossible at 100,000 that temperature. They both produce neutron flux, fission has a neutron gain of about 2.5 while fusion has massive losses. Fission produces tritium as a waste product, fusion usually requires tritium but has no practical sources for it. Both can breed fuel, fission can breed fissile material into fissionable material, ie thorium232 or uranium238 into uranium233 or plutonium239 resp. Fusion can in theory breed tritium from lithium but has a gain a fraction of 1. Berylium could double that but it is still less than 1. Most of the tritium isn't even burned. Neutron flux in fission reactors is used to make heat in water or other coolant as the neutrons are slowed down. Neutron flux in fusion reactors must hit the containment vessel and irradiate it turning it into nuclear waste. Some of that flux might produce tritium but not enough to sustain reaction. Fusion has to do many impossible things at the same time, very high temp plasma, irradiated hot walls next to cryogenic cooled magnetics with a water loop inside the vessel walls. Fission reactors can use simple physics to run in stable mode, no computer control is generally needed, other than monitoring. Fusion reactors are inherrently unstable and require computers and now AI to learn how to control them. An elementary fission reactor that produces as little as 1MW of continuous heat is a very low cost university level effort. An elementary fusion reactor that produces as much as 1MW of continuous heat is a very high cost world level effort and won't succeed for another 1000 years. Do let the world know when tritium is allowed to burn in a fusion reactor on a continuous basis, and tells us about the source of the tritium and damage done to the vessel. In thermonuclear weapons, a fission device always triggers a fusion component which then further amplifies the second stage of fission. Fission, fusion, fission play well together. If public perception of fission is negative, wait till they understand the ramifications of fusion. I have to wonder why no one is talking about Lithium Deuteride as a fuel, no breeding needed, but its used in thermonuclear bombs so is kinda top secret.

Getting my hopes up of seeing commercial fusion in my lifetime... we need to spread the word that this isn't the Godzilla kind of nuclear...

How refreshing. Real news from a real scientist. Thank you. 🙏

6th: YouTube’s algo finds out that a gorgeous woman talking about nuclear fusion increases people's belief in the technology.

Openstar Technologies. New Zealand. Who split the atom first.

6:30 they should use a 3 D printing machine to build it .

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Trust in regulators? I doubt it.