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Bernardo de La Paz

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9. Not talking sun. Please reread my post

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #8)

Tue Dec 5, 2023, 04:16 PM

Dec 2023

There is tritium contamination and neutron bombardment of the containment / energy extraction equipment.

https://iopscience.iop.org › article › 10.1088 › 1741-4326 › ac62f7
Overview on the management of radioactive waste from fusion facilities ...
May 30, 2022Fusion waste is significantly different to fission NPP waste, i.e. the quantity of fusion waste is much larger. However, it mostly comprises low-level waste (LLW) and intermediate level waste (ILW). Notably, the waste does not contain many long-lived isotopes, mainly tritium and other activation isotopes but no-transuranic elements.

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US unveils global strategy to commercialize fusion as source of clean energy during COP28 [View all] BumRushDaShow Dec 2023 OP

Ususlly engineering has the problem of scaling something up Warpy Dec 2023 #1

Nuclear Fusion really isn't green GoreWon2000 Dec 2023 #2

Welcome to DU ! KS Toronado Dec 2023 #3

As a retired chemist BumRushDaShow Dec 2023 #4

With regard to waste? Fusion does produce waste Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #7

If you are talking about what happens in a sun BumRushDaShow Dec 2023 #8

Not talking sun. Please reread my post Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #9

And I am clarifying that whatever "waste" from fusing hydrogen isotopes BumRushDaShow Dec 2023 #10

I was never talking about fused isotopes. I thought my post 7 was clear on that. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #11

You had replied to my post to another DUer BumRushDaShow Dec 2023 #12

Okay, my error as to replying to wrong post. But my subsequent assertions are true and pertinent. Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #14

I don't have a problem with fusion BumRushDaShow Dec 2023 #15

Current nuclear power plant designs won't work where I live Warpy Dec 2023 #5

We could start building high temperature air cooled fission reactors today. hunter Dec 2023 #20

Years ago, a forest fire melted high voltage lines Warpy Dec 2023 #21

So long as New Mexico believes solar and wind assisted gas power plants are the solution... hunter Dec 2023 #23

NM is a work in progress Warpy Dec 2023 #24

It's helpful they are on the same electric grid as Victoria and New South Wales. hunter Dec 2023 #25

NM is on the western grid Warpy Dec 2023 #26

Hydrogen is NOT an energy source. It is an end product, an energy carrier, derivative of another energy source Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2023 #6

Yeah, about that "green hydrogen" PSPS Dec 2023 #13

I think the French got it right. Igel Dec 2023 #16

Welcome to DU! mahina Dec 2023 #22

Must focus on an unproven technology Igel Dec 2023 #17

Idiocy clowns and fools. Voltaire2 Dec 2023 #18

That's some magical thinking. hunter Dec 2023 #19