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China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant (www.neimagazine.com)
submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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 (1 children)

They don't usually go boom so much as ticky ticky ticky on the Geiger counters, maybe a little glow in the night too...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The likelihood of one blowing its top is about as likely as the front of a boat falling off, which I’d like to make clear is very uncommon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Not sure if you're being sarcastic but boats splitting in half is not uncommon, as far as boat structural failures go it's a relatively common one.

Stats on such a thing are unavailable but there are many news articles regarding boats splitting in half. I'd hope the safety factor on a fission reactor is several orders of magnitude higher than a seafaring vessel.

https://www.marineinsight.com/videos/why-do-ships-break-from-the-middle/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

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.