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Hotter than the Sun: JET – Earth’s biggest fusion reactor, in Culham

Stevie

Bah!

Fusion is MUCH cleaner than fission in reactors, because we can't get it to work for anything a real person would call "time".

When we make explosions with it we still can't get it to work very well, but then it is much dirtier than fission on account of all the energy it does release tossing the results of the fission-stage reactions and irradiation products over a much wider area.

I wish scientists would stop pretending a working fusion reactor is here or "just around the corner". We've been turning that corner for over fifty years with no joy.

The only person to figure out working fusion reactors is still the Great Green Arkleseizure, who stuck one about 8 and a half light minutes away just to rub it in.

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