Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Fusion Breakthrough - BUSTED!!!" video.

  1. This came up a week ago at work. I was explaining how prior to the pandemic I was about to go back to school for my doctorate in chemistry and I was interested in Radio chemistry, and what fantasy projects I would love to get a job doing would include thorium reactor research going on in most nuclear power capable countries. But even cooler would be ITER or better yet Wendelstein 7X. The coworker remarked about the news of the Livermore thing; I explained this was interesting, but it's more of a see it works; and I hoped they were documenting various aspects of such ignition; the actual potential nuclear power research were those 2 latter mentioned... the Livermore experiment was more of a wow it works; despite we already know it does via the hydrogen nuclear bombs. That it's not a way to actually produce a power plant at all. And that it's not a new facility or project, that they've been fiddling with those lasers for a while now. It's sort of what happens with much smaller fusion reactions on earth that's not a mega ton or more hydrogen bomb.
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  2. The last part you mentioned is very depressing reality. It took a super secret wartime Manhattan project to develop nuclear fission into a bomb and later into a power plant. I personally think a big stake of research should focus on thorium reactors solid and the thorium salt reactor concept. And still push very hard on experimenting with a potential tokamak donut or torsion designs... loops the plasma where fusion can be sustained; heat transference is the other question. But all this research is still decades and of course possibly a century or more away to discern practicality of those two concepts to generate nuclear fusion power plants. The thorium projects are something that could be achieved (and many projects yielding very good results already coming to conclusion) to build a functioning thorium power plant in a decade or two. Thorium being more abundant than uranium; thorium being more abundant and not having much commercial use as of yet, and liquid salt reactors would reduce waste significantly.
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