Nuclear Fusion – not a clean alternative to nuclear fission
Chernobyl Children Fukushima Children http://www.facebook.com/chernobylchildren.fukushimachildren 26 Nov 12 We were told the exact SAME LIES about Nuclear Fission. The exact same lies. Now it’s Fusion. A nuclear fusion power plant emits in normal operation 1000 times more radioactivity than a nuclear power plant and produces five times as much nuclear waste as a present-day nuclear fission power plant – Including the radioactive tritium beta emitter (heavy hydrogen). It mimics Hydrogen and becomes build in the DNA hydrogen bridges and causes childood leukemia. The nuclear fusion is not a “clean alternative” but a capital-intensive, centralized destructive force, based on the principle of the HYDROGEN BOMB, so the fusion is based on the fusion of radioactive Isotopes of hydrogen (deuterium and tritium) to helium, with large amounts of energy. http://www.greenpeace-aachen.de/archiv/energie/bilder/atom-kernfusion.jpg
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I’m horrified by the lies about fusion power.
It does not release 1000 times more radiation than fission, and it does not leave five times the amount of nuclear waste.
Some tritium is inevitably released, but this amount is so miniscule that it does not even begin to approach the legal limits outside of a plant.
The ITER team is also researching full tritium containment, since it is the fuel.
However, it does not pose a hazard through external exposure, since the low energy beta radiation can’t penetrate the skin.
In the body it has a short biological half-life of 7-14 days, reducing the total dose of any tritium that enters the body.
The only waste is the reactor components that become activated through neutron irradiation. But they are not long lived. Only 50 years would be needed for the activity to decay so much that it can be treated as low level waste.
But this is only for the D-T fusion cycle. There are fuel cycles that are aneutronic, which does not result in neutron activation of components.
These fuel cycles would leave zero radioactive waste.
Also trying to connect fusion power to hydrogen bombs is extremely dishonest, since the only thing they share in common is that they use the same force of nature.
Under the laws of physics, it is completely impossible to have any form of runaway reaction in a fusion power plant. The conditions are so delicate that any disruption would half the reaction.
Also, deuterium is not radioactive. It is one of the two stable forms of hydrogen.
Trying to miscredit fusion power like this, it almost feels like you dont WANT humanity to have access to unlimited clean energy (unlimited because there is 150 billion years worth of fuel in the oceans).
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I know very little about nuclear fusion
However, I always thought that it was, at least in theory, the answer. Because I understood nuclear fusion to be relatively clean, compared to nuclear fission, – and not to have radioactive wastes.
I posted that item – partially in the hope that someone would refute it – because I was puzzled about it myself.
But that doesn’t make me an enthusiast for nuclear fusion. I understand it to be decades away, and involving huge expense. Those are my reasons for not supporting nuclear fusion. I do see it as a bit of a red herring, and yet another gimmick to persuade the world to hang on to nuclear power.
I’m not at all sure about the wisdom of humanity having access to unlimited energy, even if it is clean. (But anyway, we do have that access, with the sun’s rays). Unlimited energy, like unlimited growth, is something that this limited planet cannot cope with.
And as for uranium mining from the sea, that really is not feasible. Huge amounts in the oceans, yes – but so dilute that it makes uranium extraction from the oceans completely uneconomic and impractical.
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