Wild_Sun_1223 t1_itnbsx7 wrote on October 24, 2022 at 10:18 PM

Reply to comment by NathanTPS in Ethics of Nuclear Energy in Times of Climate Change: Escaping the Collective Action Problem by CartesianClosedCat

Or hot fusion - hot fusion is quite likely with sufficient further development. If we collapse as a civilization that won't happen of course.

Nuclear needs to be on the table. It needs to be treated with due diligence, of course, but so does everything else. That's not reason to keep it categorically off the table. It is funny because if you asked me this 16 years ago I would have been talking a lot of raving anti-nuke nonsense.

NathanTPS t1_itnc75i wrote on October 24, 2022 at 10:21 PM

The problem woth hot fusion is that it's not clean energy. Hot fusion required a fusion reaction to Jumpstart the fusion reaction, this is how a hydrogen bomb works. If there's a clean way to do hot fusion then yeah, I'd be on that, but so far as I can tell, thered be no point to hot fusion that fission doesn't already solve