Going Nuclear
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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What's the Benefit of Going With Ficonfusion?
The fusion reactor is the core that is a gas like the sun. And if anything happend to it, you just end up with aa spoonful of of liquid hydrogen in the a in the bottom of the vessel. There are interaction problems that have to be taken into account in the technology to do this. We've done some calculations, and we estimate that a nuclear fleet that was sort of 75 % light water reactors and 25% fusion fision hybred reactors would do this job very well.
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