Even if you build the perfect reactor, you're still saddled with a people problem and an equipment problem.
From David R. Brower
What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.
I will say this, - though: If it is true that fusion will put unlimited amounts of energy into our hands, then I'm worried. Our record on this score is extremely poor.
It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.
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