drkohler said:
Much more reliable? You mean the sun isn't shining in the desert tomorrow? Of course when people think of fusion, they think of DD or DT fusion. These reactions create a mess of neutrons that destabalizes and "poisons" the equipment over time. If you dismantle a nuclear power plant, pretty much everything is radioactive waste, same is likely true for a fusion plant. |
It makes a small part of the reactor radioactive very slowly, yes. So it will need to be replaced every 10 years or so, that's the only waste, and the radioactivity is short lived, more like 100 years than millions of plutonium, so we can safely store it. And of course once we achieve sustainable DT fusion we can move types with no neutrons.
