Fission VS Fusion

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[@nathanb011]

It's important to note that the nuclear waste created by fission is way less than the normal waste created by coal and oil. So little, in fact, that a single hole in the ground could hold it all. But that's not even necessary. France recycles 90% of the fuel rod and the remaining parts decay into a stable state significantly faster. This process is illegal in the US for absolutely no reason. In addition, coal has radioactive isotopes in it which get pumped into the air when burned. This means that it's more radioactive next to a coal plant than a fission plant. Finally, Thorium reactors are significantly better than Uranium reactors, and would probably be a lot easier to get working than Fusion.

[@JRexRegis]

The problem with the waste, however, isn't just that it exists - it's that it's dangerous for such a long time. Nuclear waste is dangerous today, but will be exactly as dangerous in 10.000 years - way longer than any structure we are capable of building today will last, even the strongest, concrete-filled bunkers built into mountain ranges. It's essentially a debt we will have to pay for thousands upon thousands of years, keeping this nuclear waste safe and stable until it finally decays, and that doesn't even touch the possibility of a societal collapse; how do you tell a person digging through the ruins of mankind not to dig in particular spots? Would they even understand what we're alluding to? We should definitely be recycling as much of the waste as possible, maybe even run "burner" reactors that operate at a deficit to rapidly decay nuclear waste into harmlessnes, but the fact that the waste is quantitively little isn't that much of a reassurance when it will remain, unchangedly dangerous and deadly, for longer than our species has been able to do agriculture. One way to get rid of it permanently would be shooting it into space and setting it on a decaying orbit around the sun so it's swallowed up and destroyed, but the problem there is that putting nuclear material on rockets and firing them off carries the risk of contaminating extreme stretches of land if the rocket explodes in mid-air. For now, we should do things in this order: 1. Replace all fossil fuels with nuclear energy. 2. Build up renewables and slowly scale back nuclear. 3. Start construction of a Dyson Swarm around the sun, equipped with mirowave lasers that can beam energy back to Earth. 4. As the dyson swarm becomes larger, replace all nuclear with microwave receivers.

[@sphrcl.]

@@JRexRegis or try and figure out fusion and replace renewables with that

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[@nathanb011]

@@JRexRegis or, get this... make a hole. And put it in the ground. That's how natural Uranium is held. No issues there. Additionally, as I mentioned, recycling nuclear waste is not only possible but common in places where big Oil doesn't have a strangle hold on lawmakers. And the unrecyclable waste decays much quicker. I just don't personally understand the problem with digging a hole and putting it in the ground. What do you think will happen, the solid waste will leak out the sides of the tank? Leak where? It's surrounded by rock.

[@JRexRegis]

@@nathanb011 The problem is that there's more things underground than rock. For example, all our water comes from there. Additionally, natural uranium deposits are mostly very, very, non-radioactive, that's why they're deposits. They've existed for literally billions of years, and the dangerous stuff has already decayed. One major hurdle in nuclear energy is making the stuff actually fissile - 99.3% of all natural uranium is U-238, which doesn't do shit besides be heavy. Nuclear waste, meanwhile, is actively radioactive, it's just not radioactive _enough_ to sustain a fission reaction by itself. But just because it doesn't literally explode doesn't mean it's harmless. If the solution were as simple as "dig a hole and then fill it back up", we would be doing that, rather than storing it all in "temporary" sites that were supposed to have been decommissioned decades ago. There's a wide variety of things to take into account: 1. Ease of access. You don't want to ferry around highly toxic radioactive waste for longer than you absolutely need to. 2. Surrounding population and wildlife. You don't want to bury it under a city or near some towns, and also not in a national park. 3. Seismic stability. On a larger scale, concrete bunkers are brittle, since concrete is, you know, not very flexible. This makes them vulnerable to earthquakes, which will cause the waste to leak into the resulting cracks and nooks and poison the local water supply. 4. tectonic stability. If you bury the stuff in a mountain, plate tectonics will unbury it for you in a few thousand to million years. The problem is that the stuff will still be dangerous by then. 5. Future debt. If civilization collapses or humanity enters a second dark age, there needs to be some way to ensure our descendants will not be harmed by this waste, which they may not even be able to understand. And these are just the ones I know about.

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[@TimothySword]

How to make a Hydrogen bomb at home! So, hydrogen compresses 900x original size before it is liquefied! Oxygen around 800x! HH, and O gas without being pressurised is 2x more explosive than TNT! Meaning liquid H, and liquid O at a 2:1 ratio is 1750x more explosive than TNT! What happens when you put an explosive under pressure, e.g. a Graphene coated explosive? It becomes even more explosive! Deuteride (an isotope of Hydrogen) is used in H-bombs, and has a freezing point of 3.8 degrees Celsius in a water molecule! This is heavy water! Then you use electrolysis, and follow the same steps of making liquid hydrogen, so you have liquid deuterium! Now we know that different isotopes of Hydrogen have different melting points, that is also true with lithium (another vital ingredient to a large fusion H-bomb! Lithium melts at 180.5 degrees Celsius, now all you need is to store it in paraffin wax, the paraffin wax has a flash point of 199 degrees Celsius! Heat up the paraffin wax, and you will be able to separate the isotopes of lithium! You will then have one liquid isotope, and one solid! Just filter! You now have the basic building blocks for a large H bomb! Ofcourse liquid H, and liquid O must be stored separately, so you have another set of smaller tanks to make sure it gets the perfect 1750 mixture! You then place the liquid deuteride, and lithium in the centre! Place this device under pressure, the more pressure, the larger the explosion, and the better the fusion. Graphene, dyneema, etc! Pressure is great, it's vital for fusion

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[@cesar_br5848]

well explained! In Brazil, we have the ANGRA-1 and ANGRA-2 nuclear reators which are responsible to produce almost 3% of Brazil's ennergy supply. Also, Almost half of our energy comes from renewables (45%). For example, We have biomass from sugarcane, corn and specially hydro stations, which some of them are in the top 10 most powerful, like Tucurí Station in Amazon River, responsible to keep my PC on while typing this comment. Unfortunatelly, if the the rains come too late, some rivers can become almost completely dry and these hydro stations become very inneficient, making the goverment to turn on coal/diesel generators like happened in "Seca de São Paulo" in 2016.

[@joaopedroalmeidacaetano1619]

Which is kinda dumb, tbh. The amount of hydro stations in Brazil is just dumb, as hydroelectric energy is inneficient as fuck, and it kills our natural beauties. Brasil is almost one hundred years behind other countries in energy production, and it shows. Last month I didn't use my electric shower a single time, and payed a 200 reais bill. Imagine if we had some more nuclear reactors?

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[@hullinstruments]

Comparison of energy reactors to nuclear weapons is a bit misleading. Even though I’m sure that wasn’t your intention. No matter how dangerous the circumstances… A nuclear reactor can never detonate or be even 1% as dangerous as a Weaponized device. Even if you take into consideration the damage caused by events like Chernobyl and Fukushima, they are literally NOTHING on the scale of injuries and damage caused by oil, coal, and over-the-counter cold medication‘s. Literally everything is more dangerous than energy reactors. If you can think of something that exists, I guarantee you it kills more people every year than energy reactors have in the past 50. My apologies for the rant

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[@JLW667]

0:50 Fission 2:06 Nuclear Reactor 3:33 Wind, Solar,Hydro 3:40 3:50

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[@qasim_iqbal]

Coming over to the video now that US has successfully tested Fusion reaction where more energy is released that put into the reaction.

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‘This is a working nuclear fusion reactor. Let’s go inside it!’

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[@CarrotKing269]

I would like to point out that recently(not sure hoe recently but) there was a fusion reactor that managed to prolong its process for 5 seconds which doesnt sound like much, but they generated a decent amount more energy than they put in, which means we've basically got it working already, and getting the process to last longer is as simple as continuously running it over and over again, because the stabilization is run by AI learning. Absolutely fascinating subject, and I'm hyped to see where it goes

[@FortKnight_Gamer]

Wouldn’t that be much more safe than the fission reactors we have currently? Like in the case of a natural disaster like an earthquake or tsunami wouldn’t spell disaster for the environment, right

[@masterofthelag8414]

@@FortKnight_Gamer Yup. A fusion reactor that was damaged or failed would shut off almost instantly and the only thing they irradiate is the inside of the reactor casing. They're no-where near as dangerous as practically any other power generation source. I think the only safer one might be solar, since about the only way that's going to hurt you is if you walk into the panel or something.

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[@Masonicon]

nuclear fusion is cleaner than even nuclear fission

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First time I umderstand how the energy of nuclear reactors is harvested, from the heat. People always explain the atomic reaction, but not how the process works. Thank you

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[@ScenicFlyer4]

This is great, but I only have one question. How do fusion reactors make power? Whenever I look up how fission works I get, uranium decays, heat produced, steam produced, turbine spun. But whenever I look it up for fusion, I get, smashing things together makes a lot of energy. Ok, but how does it get turned into electricity? Does fusion also spin steam turbines? Is it like a thermoelectric generator? I would just like clarification if you don't mind,

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I may be wrong but it's Fusion>heat>water>steam>turbine>electricity

[@shadowOrgon]

Essentially yes, that is one of the only ways our civilization knows how to make tons of electricity, boil water and spin turbine (and it works quite well!) So in fusion the way I've heard it, the walls of the reactor have to survive/shield a ton of neutrons coming out of the fusion plasma, and those neutrons carry most of the released energy. So some of those neutrons will collide with, and dumb their energy into the walls, heating them up quite a lot, therefore to keep from melting, water is cycled through the walls and that boils to make steam. Then same process as all other thermal power plants.

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@@shadowOrgon thanks, it's interesting that something so advanced still uses water to make electricity.

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[@stanthedemon1263]

Unrelated, but: "FISSION, FUSION, you're dead either way." -Marlton, Black Ops 2 Zombies

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Bruh I'm sitting here in the future like aye we defiantly completed fusion maybe you should update your video idk though it's still somewhat but yeah it's been months but still no word of us getting one cant wait though

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Nuclear reactors may be the future but a big problem with them is that once it’s there it’s there it can never truly be destroyed or removed which can create huge problems.

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[@hullinstruments]

Comparison of energy reactors to nuclear weapons is a bit misleading. Even though I’m sure that wasn’t your intention. No matter how dangerous the circumstances… A nuclear reactor can never detonate or be even 1% as dangerous as a Weaponized device. Even if you take into consideration the damage caused by events like Chernobyl and Fukushima, they are literally NOTHING on the scale of injuries and damage caused by oil, coal, and over-the-counter cold medication‘s. Literally everything is more dangerous than energy reactors. If you can think of something that exists, I guarantee you it kills more people every year than energy reactors have in the past 50. My apologies for the rant

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[@nerdcuddles7731]

nuclear waste isn't very hard to contain, you just contain it in concrete and bury it

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