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Originally Posted by genius
even if they succeed in building fusion powerplants, we are still a long way from using it in cars.
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I wasn't talking about using it in the cars, just in general. Fusion reactors will probably be reality in the near future, but I don't think it could be used directly for cars for a long, long time.
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I haven't heard anything about that, so my comment might be completely erroneous. Still, I think that the environmentalists and other such worry-worts will have a problem with anything having to do with nuclear technology on the highways and byways. They won't even let a nuclear powered rocket take off for fear it will explode and rain nuclear waste down on their organic crops. They're certainly not going to let cars, which have considerably more accidents than rockets, carry around nuclear fuel.
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Fusion energy is much safer than fission energy so the resistance wouldn't perhaps be that furious. And there are more pros than cons for fusion energy regarding the environment.
http://www.fusion.org.uk/focus/
"The major conclusions reached by the SEAFP team in 1995 were that fusion has very good inherent safety qualities; there are no chain reactions and no production of 'actinides'. The worst possible accident originating in a fusion power station could not breach the confinement; any releases could not approach levels at which evacuation would be considered.
The radiotoxicity of a fusion power station's waste materials decays rapidly, and they present no accumulating or long-term burden on future generations. They would not need guaranteed isolation from the environment for very long timespans. In addition to these favourable results, fusion produces no climate-changing or atmosphere-polluting emissions."