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China is achieving high efficency Fusion early!
By using it to supercharge fission plants
Nuclear fission is not as dangerous as people think it is. Nuclear powerplants are built like fortresses, there are many protocols for safety and a well built and well planned nuclear powerplant will not bring any casualties. The alternative on the other hand (fossil fuels), kills more people every year than nuclear energy in its whole history. If you asked me if I'd rather live next to a nuclear power plant or a coal/oil based thermoelectric, I'd choose the one who gives out a lesser radiation dose, the nuclear powerplant
It's the catastrophic failures that leave long lasting multi generational environmental deviststion. The more fission plants we have, the higher the risk of one going. We live in the days where 1 in 500 year events are happening on the norm and massive state actors actively target nukes as policy. Fukushima happened because despite the "it would never happen here that bad" happened even with multiple redundancies and built like a fortress. Every fission plant made increases the chances of another catastrophic failure. It's a gamble with worsening odds that I feel is a blind spot.
I applaud China in innovating, but fission plants give me red flags as they pile on the risk. Then piping a neutron stream into one seems even more risky. I would to develop energy storage and splitting hydrogen and oxygen. At least if a hydrogen / oxygen plant goes it won't make exclusion zones or poison the water supply.
Can you imagine if Fukushima happened on the shores of Lake Michigan rather the Pacific Ocean? It would contaminate the drinking water and economic lifeblood for millions. Many see fission as a quick fix, but I feel they overlook the odds when that kind of money (and there's a huge nuke lobby) for these plants could be used in developing less risky solutions that would benifet us in the long term goal of becoming a Type 1 and beyond civilization.
I thought we would have learned after Fukushima fission was not the way to go.
Okay, but. How many of those happened? I can think of two. And fukushima was 100% avoidable if it wasn't for capitalism. They knew it could happen, they knew what to do to avoid it, they were warned multiple times, and did nothing, because why would they spend money to fix that. There are ways to ensure better safety and that this won't happen, unless something really bad happens. Now, burning coal will always pollute the environment, aggravating global warming and causing death all over the world. Don't underestimate CO2. Yes, we can research better solutions, we can also research better safety measures and use something that is ready and robust instead of continuing to use coal and oil. The only thing I'm trying to argue here is that nuclear is better and safer than coal/oil plants which cause the most early deaths per unit of energy produced