On Jul 11, 6:14*pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
On 12/07/2011 10:06 AM, Richard Stephens wrote:

I wonder what these recent accidents will do to fusion research. Will
the average person think that all nuclear power is the same?

Well, they probably would, but I doubt that matters much as far as
research is concerned. If and when fusion plants were actually being
built around the world, there would have to be some education programs
designed to explain why a fusion plant cannot possibly suffer the kinds
of problem encountered with fission plants.

A good starting point would be a description of how difficult it's
proved to be to get fusion plants to function even when we want them to,
let alone when we don't

Sylvia.

Any sort of fusion powered source of energy is exactly the same as an
H-bomb. If you can do one, you can just as easily do the other.
Mook's version of a fusion thruster has an exhaust velocity of 33,000
km/sec, so there's really no telling how much global WMD kind of
trouble we'll all be in when most everyone has access to fusion
energy.

I'd still favor going for it, even though it would be technically
impossible to remote detect a fusion powered WMD that doesn't even
have to be all that large or massive.

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