re: The Germans have built a Stellarator

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Do you actually know how a nuclear bomb works?

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No. This is way over my head.

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When there is a head-on collision will it be like a bomb?


Do you actually know how a nuclear bomb works?

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To be fair, most people don't.

There is zero chance of a nuclear explosion due to the mechanics of how everything is put together. It is very very difficult to make a nuclear explosion happen - it is not something that happens accidentally.

A fission (not fusion) reactor can have an accidental meltdown but that is not an explosion. And if a fusion reactor like a tokamak loses magnetic containment it's actually very benign - it just stops working is all that happens. When I was a Physics student at UT-Austin we had a working tokamak in the basement of the physics building and it happened all the time.