ooli3@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.ml · 15 days agoLooks like nuclear fusion is picking up steamwww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up126arrow-down1external-linkLooks like nuclear fusion is picking up steamwww.theverge.comooli3@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.ml · 15 days agomessage-square9fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·15 days agoWhat timeframe do you foresee for that?
minus-squaresolrize@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·14 days agoFor fusion? No idea. For thorium / molten salt (I mistakenly wrote molten thorium)? China has an experimental reactor operating right now, and they plan to build a lot of them: https://www.neimagazine.com/news/china-refuels-thorium-reactor-without-shutdown/
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·14 days agoGood article. They’re certainly making progress but there is still a very long way to go. I still stand by the fifty years from my other comment.
minus-squarechonkyninja@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·15 days ago70 more years. Seeing as the tech already exists and we created a reactor about 70 years ago. Also thorium is only used to make plutonium.
minus-squareDiplomjodler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 days agoI’m a bit more optimistic. It should be doable in fifty years.
What timeframe do you foresee for that?
For fusion? No idea. For thorium / molten salt (I mistakenly wrote molten thorium)? China has an experimental reactor operating right now, and they plan to build a lot of them:
https://www.neimagazine.com/news/china-refuels-thorium-reactor-without-shutdown/
Good article. They’re certainly making progress but there is still a very long way to go. I still stand by the fifty years from my other comment.
70 more years. Seeing as the tech already exists and we created a reactor about 70 years ago. Also thorium is only used to make plutonium.
I’m a bit more optimistic. It should be doable in fifty years.