China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant
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also known as a hydrogen bomb.
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This is one of the biggest frustrations with nuclear power. The first power plants had issues (mostly due to them being bomb factory designs). We learnt from that, and designed better ones. They never got built. They were swamped in red tape and delays until they died.
Decades later, China comes in and just asks nicely. The designs work fine. China now leads the way, built on research we left to rot.
It's also worth noting that there is a big difference between a fusion power plant and a fission one. China is doing active research on it, as is the west. There's quite a friendly rivalry going on. We have also basically cracked fusion now. We just need to scale it up. The only big problem left is the tokamakite issue. The neutron radiation put off by the reaction transmutes the walls. Using radioactive materials as a buffer is an idea I've not heard of. I'm curious about the end products. A big selling point of fusion is the lack of long term waste. Putting a fission reaction in there too might lose that benefit.
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Is that a resonance cascade? Don't see those every day.
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i can’t imagine criticizing a country for building too much high efficiency mass transit in advance
I mean the Nazis did that in preparation for their Blitzkrieg and the Holocaust so there are real examples why building seemingly overengineered and overly excessive infrastructure can be problematic. And besides a demonstration of power, I think some of those railways are exactly that. To transport troops or masses of prisoners quickly and efficiently. God knows they have enough of those.
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It was a joke. We have invented fission and fusion, but the reactors are still attached it to a Rankine Cycle.
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This is uncontrolled reaction. Chinese and other countries plan to be able to conduct the controlled reaction
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Everybody has been stealing each other's nuclear secrets for decades.
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That depends... do you count tsunami? Operator error? Design hubris?
All told, I wouldn't be surprised if a greater percentage of reactors have melted down than big ships have split at sea.
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fusion-fission power plant
Sounds like you're just undoing your work. Put the pieces together, take them apart again. Energy!
Wake up babe new perpetual motion dropped!
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B..b..but murica bad!
