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2022-04-05 Britain

Boris Johnson goes nuclear: PM plans SEVEN new reactors to boost UK's energy self-reliance - but drops plans to double the number of wind turbines amid Tory backlash

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Now Boris, you can't go being practical like this. (Just don't build another Windscale.)(Look it up.)

Posted by ed in texas 2022-04-05 11:01|| 2022-04-05 11:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Nuclear fusion breakthrough: 'Holy grail' of power production closer to reality after UK start-up develops new technique for accelerating fuel at 200 times the speed of sound

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 11:57|| 2022-04-05 11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Commercial nuclear fusion is always 30 years away. You will know it's been documented in the lab when the estimate goes up to 50 years away.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 11:59|| 2022-04-05 11:59|| Front Page Top

#4 You will know it's been documented in the lab when the ~~estimate~~ lab goes up

Posted by Skidmark 2022-04-05 16:42|| 2022-04-05 16:42|| Front Page Top

#5 ^ Yep. And it will create a black hole, even though the Earth doesn't have a fraction of the mass necessary.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-04-05 16:44|| 2022-04-05 16:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Reactors built by Rosatom...? China? ...France?

Posted by magpie 2022-04-05 21:24|| 2022-04-05 21:24|| Front Page Top

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