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[–] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago (1 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 -4 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.

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 5 points 1 year ago

Would you care to share a single reputable source, or are these your own speculations on a technology that all the experts are saying is safe?

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

You are a moron.

[–] Lugh@futurology.today 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@lurch@sh.itjust.works

Can you provide a reputable source for these claims? Otherwise I'll delete the OG comment and its replies. There's no point in leaving up misinformation.