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Offline Enthalpy

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Re: Ersatz for Natural Gas?
« Reply #90 on: June 25, 2022, 05:15:11 PM »
Uranium reactors would release their radioactivity like Chernobyl if bombed
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Hypothetical hydrogen fusion reactors would too.

I already explained that tritium regeneration is necessary at fusion reactors and would produce as much radioactive waste as uranium reactors do
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Since I put that on the Web, the fusion promoters refined their rhetoric. No more deuterium-tritium "from the Ocean". No more "limitless clean energy": fusion now only "avoids long-lived radioactive waste". Maybe, if we have no bad surprise. But the short- and medium-lived radioactive waste would be quite present, with radiation, half-lives and amount similar to iodine, strontium and cesium. And if a bomb or impactor bursts such a fusion reactor, the radioactivity will spread.

Though, small fusion reactors not meant for energy can usefully replace fission reactors to produce radioisotopes for medicine and more
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Using and regenerating no tritium, they would "only" activate their materials by neutron irradiation, and with a flux 105× smaller. The flux per material amount 102× smaller eases the insoluble problem of double neutron activation 107×.
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Re: Ersatz for Natural Gas?
« Reply #91 on: June 26, 2022, 07:00:00 AM »
Locking.

This thread has long run its course, now it is just Enthalpy's rants over whatever.
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