CarlinAnnArbor
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Another of your errors:Nope....
Hydrogen bombs, neutron bombs, "tac nukes" been around a long time. A lot of the MERV technology missiles use fusion bombs...for when you want to destroy a whole nation but claim its resources.
Fission is what we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. But we have tested all sorts of different fusion reactions over the years until treaties prevented it. But fission has a huge amount of lingering radiation. Fusion has a huge burst of radiation (which sterilizes all organic life) but then it's over and radiation levels go back to normal except for a small area at the epicenter.
Fission is a lot cooler than fusion reactions. Fission is containable....fusion has demonstrated a capability of burning everything it gets near. Not all fusion reactions are completely containable either.
They were working on liquid helium cooled reactors for plutonium fission reactions....but it still gets too hot and the cores have to be replaced too often to be economically viable. The pressures in the cores were also insane.
Nuclear power plants are not a good idea. I get the attraction of supposedly "clean power". But the two main detractors are the brown site they leave behind and that they are great targets for our enemies.
I'm not exactly a coal fan either. Mercury poisoning of our waterways is not exactly a positive. They have developed better scrubbers for the exhaust but implementing them is expensive.
Clean coal tech is something worth exploring. It's been abandoned and forgotten. But it's actually a renewable resource. We can utilize the mountains of unusable Yellow coal we currently have and make more from any organic material available. Very small brown site footprint for the processes. And it would assist in forest management keeping the forest fires at bay. Lots of percs for clean coal technology.
Fusion REACTORS are NOT bombs and can NEVER be. They violate NO treaty It is physically impossible for a fusion reactor to explode.