China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant
China plans world’s first fusion-fission power plant
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.
Wait wait wait wait.
Don't we already do this? Just right now we don't do it in the same reactor?
No, we do this in a fusion weapon. Half of its energy output is from fast neutron fission of the uranium tamper.
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.
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.
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
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