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From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: never had a good feeling about fusion...
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especially as a "modern" nuclear weapon... Scientists repeat nuclear fusion breakthrough 3 times by Rachel Frazin - 12/22/23 4:34 PM ET Federal scientists have repeated their breakthrough toward nuclear fusion energy three times this year — and now say they can “consistently” produce fusion energy. Late last year, the Energy Department announced its scientists had achieved a breakthrough — receiving a net-energy gain from a nuclear fusion reaction for the first time. It later announced that it had repeated the achievement — getting a net energy gain for the second time in July. A recent report from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory showed it got a net-gain two additional times — both in October. “These results demonstrated [the National Ignition Facility’s] ability to consistently produce fusion energy at multi-megajoule levels,” the report said. In a nuclear fusion reaction, atoms are fused together to create energy. Nuclear energy used today is produced by a different process, known as fission, in which atoms are split apart. Nuclear fusion does not create waste that requires long-term storage, as today’s fission power does. Despite the breakthroughs, widespread use of nuclear fusion power remains years if not decades away, though the Biden administration has touted it as a potential source of climate-friendly energy. In addition to its energy uses, when the breakthrough was announced last year, a federal official also described fusion as “an essential process in modern nuclear weapons.” “Since achieving ignition for the first time last December, we have continued to perform experiments to study this exciting new scientific regime,” said Mark Herrmann, the laboratory’s associate director for Weapon Physics and Design, in a written statement. He added that the breakthrough enables “unprecedented capability to support the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Stockpile Stewardship Program and potentially paving first steps toward a fusion energy future.” |
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7398
From: georg, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: never had a good feeling about fusion...
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fusion is theory and does not exist in nature ... the theory is wrong ... stars do not create elements ... all the elements were created at the time of creation ... in the electric universe, stars are anodes and collect particles from the ether ... etheric physics is the only physics worth studying |
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7395
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: with good reason
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Union of Concerned Scientists excerpt "The still greater energy potential of nuclear fusion was demonstrated seven years later when a fission bomb was used to initiate fusion reactions in the world’s first demonstration of a thermonuclear device. The test, dubbed ‘Ivy Mike’, had a yield of 10.4 megatons – 450 times more powerful than the fission bomb detonated over Nagasaki. That astonishing increase in destructive power was made possible by the fact that fusion reactions, though harder to initiate, release far more energy than fission. Because of their greater power, thermonuclear weapons now dominate our nuclear arsenal. Ever since, fusion has represented a powerful dichotomy as nature’s ultimate energy source and man’s most destructive capability. The pursuit of controlled fusion energy and the drive to build more sophisticated nuclear weapons have been linked ever since." |
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7388
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: never had a good feeling about fusion...
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Me either...I remember George Bush as the end of his last term said something about it and being close to a breakthrough which gave me an uncomfortable feeling. |
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From: Rodney Boulderfield, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: President NookYallAre couldn't be satisfied
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With just A-bombs and H-bombs. Had to have an F-bomb. |
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7389
From: Skywise, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: never had a good feeling about fusion...
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You folks have my curiosity. What is it about fusion power that you're not liking? Brian |
7392
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: never had a good feeling about fusion...
| just a vague feeling of dread...nothing based on science...but it's like giving an uzi to a five year old and telling him to be careful with it... |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: never had a good feeling about fusion...
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Why? What do you care what I like and what I don't like... you never wanted to have a conversation with me before. Do you have some sort of vested interest in what I care about? I seriously doubt it. Maybe ryan will respond and engage in conversing with you thereby satiate your curiosity ...or not. |
7394
From: Skywise, [DNS_Address]
Subject: because I've never heard of anyone being against fusion power before
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I've heard of concerns about the cost of development, but that's it. So I simply wanted to know why someone might be against it otherwise. Perhaps there is something about it that I was unaware of. Hope your day gets better. Brian |
7397
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: because I've never heard of anyone being against fusion power...
| it just seems so 20th century... |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: because I've never heard of anyone being against fusion power...
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Thank you. Apologies for the moody response. It's a feeling, like ryan I can't describe it. ~Eve |
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From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: never had a good feeling about fusion...
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