UK is looking for a site to build world's first prototype fusion energy plant

To charge all those new electric cars?

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Give it time.

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Well, it’s where the UK’s shiny new non-EU passports are being printed. Plus, it was the Poles that really cracked the Enigma, so they’d probably do better with a fusion device anyway.

No idea. Anywhere but the UK anyhow.

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Thanks for clarifying!

I didn’t know that they are printed here in Poland :rofl:
I love the irony of that, especially considering all the hate towards Polish immigrants that can be seen in the UK.

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The claim has always been that fusion would produce no radioactive waste. But when the fusion containment vessel itself becomes radioactive, from being bathed in gamma rays from a sustained fusion reaction, what then? Is there a plan for disposing of the radioactive structure, or even a plan for taking it apart safely?

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Thanks for that info. I thought they had shut it down when ITER started. I spent some time there in the training mock up and it was like being in a science fiction future.

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Still way better than the environmental harm from global warming.

They can simply use the existing permanent disposal sites for radioactive waste from the fission reactors.
Oh, wait …

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Its for the climate, isn’t it?

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