Deutschland setzt Milliarden in die Kernfusion für die Energiezukunft
https://www.dw.com/en/nuclear-fusion-germany-bets-billions-on-technology-for-energy-future/a-74522109
Deutschland setzt Milliarden in die Kernfusion für die Energiezukunft
https://www.dw.com/en/nuclear-fusion-germany-bets-billions-on-technology-for-energy-future/a-74522109
18 Kommentare
Didn’t they previously place a (now failed) bet on hydrogen solving all their future energy problems? /s
Nuclear, nuclear, nuclear
Why, so they can shut it down after a few decades when there’s an accident in a completely different situation in a completely different country on the other side of the planet?
Why? Just build nuclear. It’s cheaper, it’s proven to work, it exists now, and it’s the safest energy source on the planet. Nuclear is an entire order of magnitude less deadly than solar or wind.
Why is the spending so low in France? They have ITER.
Fortunately they wouldn’t need any betting if they just turned on their nuclear reactors until fusion comes online.
The literal safest form of mass energy generation humanity has ever made!
If they get it right every other renewable is obsolete, correct?
A whole 2 billion? Cute.
Sounds like they are trying to make up for their shameful nuclear phaseout. [Germany would have phased out coal if they kept their nuclear power plants open.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fis-nuclear-waste-a-big-environmental-concern-v0-4m2k20xiwruf1.jpeg%3Fwidth%3D1200%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D1ee19b58284bcda74c99c2c4a8672476a032584c)
OK, this is a risk, but here goes. Can people tell me, in layman’s terms, the safety of *modern* fission reactors? Of course I understand the constancy of nuclear power as opposed to most renewables, but I just can’t conceptualise how it can be possible for it to be safer and cheaper, when considering the possibility of issues with the reactor, the transport and processing of waste and how you manage the site and nearby environment during and after the useful lifetime of the plant.
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Better than pumping it into the AI bubble.
We have proven working technologies today. Fission and breeder reactors.
Germans with their belief in magical and ultrapowerfull wunderwaffe which will for sure change the tide.
if only we could harvest the energy from the sun
> nuclear fusion leaves behind no radioactive waste
„Yes, fusion reactions do produce radioactive waste, but significantly less and of a different nature compared to fission reactions used in current nuclear power plants. While the fusion process itself is inherently non-radioactive, the interaction of neutrons released during fusion with surrounding materials leads to the creation of radioactive isotopes. These isotopes have vastly shorter half-lives, making the waste management challenges substantially more manageable than those associated with fission.“
from https://iere.org/does-fusion-produce-radioactive-waste/
Research is not some kind of gambling.
There was some hype going on mining the moon for this