Liberals on-board with nuclear now? Better be - the game may have just changed.

The problem with nuclear is the same with any industry; the crooked fricks that care more about $$$$ than doing it right and safe. As much as I hate Government regulations, we need for there to be the very real possibly of criminal charges for everyone that puts the people in danger.

Nuclear fusion requires a lot of sustained heat. Think sun and the need for a fission device to set off a hydrogen fusion reaction. It's probably a long, long way out.

Did you ignore the article?

Obviously

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Not sure why conservatives would criticize it.

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Really we just need to get on the ball of building some new regular nuclear power plants until this new technology is perfected. We've fallen way behind other countries in building nuclear power plants. It's the one clean energy that actually works well right now.

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In this latest milestone at the LLNL, researchers recorded an energy yield of more than 1.3 megajoules (MJ) during only a few nanoseconds.

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I’m pretty sure this is not the first time. Creating nuclear fusion for very short periods of time has not been the issue. The issue is sustaining the reaction.

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Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Confirmed: California Team Achieved Ignition (newsweek)

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I too believe nuclear to be the only long term sustainable and reasonable energy source. I however plan to live far away from any fission generation station.

If automated safeties ever fail, I personally do not have confidence anyone at those power plants will have the knowledge, experience, problem solving skills, a sense of urgency, and the courage to stop a meltdown. If there isn’t a procedure and a checklist, the task will not get done. Nuclear power engineers are some of the worst engineers I’ve met - I’d say that industry has the largest gap between the competent and incompetent.

The very few really smart guys are going to have to build an idiot-proof fusion plant design that doesn’t take 15 years to build and go 20 times over budget.

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We had navy ships in the 60’s powered by nuclear reactors. It’s 2022 I think we can do it a little better now.

Oh yeah, there’s more money to be made on windmills and solar panels that don’t produce shite so you need an infinite amount of them. Never ending gravy train.

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Yep. Prices for existing reliable energy sources are being intentionally inflated by reducing supplies and we're being forced to accept tech that won't meet demand, the hardware isn't recyclable and there's a finite supply of minerals for and not upgrading the power grid.
Bastards. I think they're slow rolling fusion until there's not so many of us they need to supply power for.