China May Be Ready to Use Nuclear Fusion for Power by 2050 (yahoo.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/03/05/011226/china-may-be-ready-to-use-nuclear-fusion-for-power-by-2050
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> China National Nuclear Corp. (CNNC) last year formed an industry alliance and set up a new national fusion company, the China Fusion Corp. It has attracted about 1.75 billion yuan ($240 million) in investment from CNNC and Zhejiang Zheneng Electric Power Co. for cutting-edge tokamak devices, which use magnetic fields to confine and control superheated plasma to produce power without emissions or significant radioactive waste. CNNC also plans to scale up production of its homegrown designs for regular nuclear fission reactors and small modular reactors over the next five years, the company's Vice General Manager Xin Feng said at the briefing.
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> China is set to leapfrog the US and France as the owner of the world's biggest reactor fleet by 2030. About 10 new reactors have been approved every year since power shortages emerged in 2022 and the country is expected to keep up that pace through 2030 to meet climate goals, CNNC said on Friday.
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dupe (Score:3)
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Not a dupe, that one had an upper-case "To" in the headline.
In 25 years... (Score:2)
In 25 years from back to the future we had flying cars and hoverboards. Ok, the Mets but shaddup.
I can throw a dart at a dartboard and eventually get a bullseye. That doesn't mean that the first throw is anything to write an article about.
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a) we have flying cars. Probably half a dozen types
b) no one ever talked about "hover boards" as they are physically impossible. Unless you want to talk about fancy boards that have 4, 6 or 8 propellers: those exist, too!
Confused (Score:2)
That is bad! Fusion is supposed to be feasible in 10 years. I heard that for years, decades. Now they say it is 25 years away? How is that progress? Now I am very confused... (/s)
Rolling 25 years (Score:3)
So no change there then. Nuclear fusion has been a rolling 25 years away for decades.
LOL! ... Fusion: Always 30 years in the future! (Score:2)
EOM
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I used to have this seafood place nearby called Joe's Crab Shack. Painted on the back of the restaurant, there was a sign that said "FREE CRAB TOMORROW". The joke of course is, just as Bill Murray said in the movie Groundhog Day, "Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today!" , that it never is tomorrow - it's always today .
Fusion power (as in the kind of plant that'd be producing juice for the grid in an economically viable way) is like that free crab you could have "tomorrow". It sounds w
So they were wrong yesterday? (Score:2)
Looks like the schedule slipped by a day.
2050 (Score:2)
Any predictions made so far into the future are absolutely useless.
Hahahaha (Score:2)
Um, ok. Predictions about stuff that will happen 5+ years from when it's made are nearly always wrong. It usually means we're missing some fundamental breakthrough. Mind you I believe we'll have fusion energy eventually, and need toward towards that. But when you start putting dates to it, that's BS.