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China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant (www.neimagazine.com)
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The fusion-fission hybrid will use high-energy neutrons produced by a fusion reaction to trigger fission in surrounding materials thereby boosting energy output and potentially reducing long-lived nuclear waste.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not that I'm aware of. All our nuclear commercial power plants are just plain old nuclear energy boiling water. We're gonna use a damn Dyson Sphere to boil water......

We have bombs that use a similar starting mechanism, but they aren't exactly useful energy production.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I meant that we use neutron breeders to turn certain fuel rod waste into fissile plutonium I think.

The difference with the Chinese invention is that you don't need to transport the waste to a separate breeder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Isn't a Dyson Sphere supposed to use solar panels? I don't know how you would find enough water to cover the interior of an object with the radius of the Earth

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It was a joke. We have invented fission and fusion, but the reactors are still attached it to a Rankine Cycle.

Also, the radius would be considerably larger than the sun. Perhaps not encapsulating The Earth, but that seems like a potential death sentence, if we built a Dyson Sphere rather than a Dyson Swarm