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    Fission to Fusion

    Fission to Fusion - the future



    Our future necessitates an advanced energy source. We have too many people and too few resources. That advanced energy source is fusion. It is our future.

    When the first atomic bomb test, code-named “Project Trinity,” was conducted on July 16, 1945, civilization moved from the chemical era—during which atomic energy was outsourced to the sun—to the nuclear era, when induced atomic reactions on Earth could produce energy. Humanity’s relationship with the atom may be about to change again, into an age of controlled nuclear fusion for electricity generation.

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    A new energy source is clearly needed, considering the five- to seven-fold increase in electrical demand predicted to occur between the years 2000 and 2100 and the potentially devastating impacts of man-made climate change caused by consuming fossil fuels to meet this demand. To overcome these challenges, nuclear energy may be part of the solution—however reluctant society may be to consider it.


    When we think of nuclear energy, we have an overwhelming tendency to think of fission. There may be an even better source of nuclear energy, however, in the form of fission’s close cousin: fusion.
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    My understanding is fission is the division of one atom into two, and fusion is the combination of two lighter atoms into a larger one and are opposing processes, very different from each other. I believe our power plants are fission. Tell me how fusion would be better.

    I lived in Long Island in Shoreham, and the Shoreham Nuclear power plant never went on line. People were afraid. We were one mile from it.

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    Right, there are no operational fusion plants. There are at least two operating experimentally- successfully too.


    A reactor using fusion to generate electricity is intrinsically safe: First, a runaway nuclear chain reaction cannot take place, under any circumstances. Second, no long-lived, highly radioactive products are created. Third, of those magnetic confinement fusion reactors that will require radioactive fuels such as tritium, both the radioactive fuel requirements and fuel half-life are orders of magnitude lower than their fission counterparts.



    Quote Originally Posted by Redrose View Post
    My understanding is fission is the division of one atom into two, and fusion is the combination of two lighter atoms into a larger one and are opposing processes, very different from each other. I believe our power plants are fission. Tell me how fusion would be better.

    I lived in Long Island in Shoreham, and the Shoreham Nuclear power plant never went on line. People were afraid. We were one mile from it.
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    This country has been moving further and further from science and defunding education.

    If our future necessitates an advanced energy source ... it's going to come from somewhere else.

    We have way too many Politicians controlling what science this country invest in.

    It's sad ... but the Nuts control the Money who Teach and control our children's Future.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cigar View Post
    This country has been moving further and further from science and defunding education.

    If our future necessitates an advanced energy source ... it's going to come from somewhere else.

    We have way too many Politicians controlling what science this country invest in.

    It's sad ... but the Nuts control the Money who Teach and control our children's Future.
    Fission isn't coming from secondary education or even college level education. It will come from graduate and above- which is largely immune to the complaint that you raise. Which, otherwise I think is valid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Right, there are no operational fusion plants. There are at least two operating experimentally- successfully too.
    So given that, they are much safer and we won't have the problem of sealing up nuclear waste. Right?

    So what's the hold up? Sounds good to me.

    In NY we were afraid of a melt down. We were so close to the plant, we were not included in evacuation rehearsals.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    Fission isn't coming from secondary education or even college level education. It will come from graduate and above- which is largely immune to the complaint that you raise. Which, otherwise I think is valid.

    Trust me ... one defiantly come before the other ... un less you actually think the answers are already in the heads of a graduate

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redrose View Post
    So given that, they are much safer and we won't have the problem of sealing up nuclear waste. Right?

    So what's the hold up? Sounds good to me.

    In NY we were afraid of a melt down. We were so close to the plant, we were not included in evacuation rehearsals.
    The two plants have just broken the point of making a profit, so I imagine that is good news. The current power brokers in energy have say, however.
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