Reply To: Energy Output – MW & GW

[zapkitty]

… late night thought…

… and wouldn’t that be an ironic sight? An iconic sight? A decommissioned fission plant at night dotted with a couple of dozen FF units and none of them contributing to the grid. Because they don’t have to, the grid’s taken care of by other FF units elsewhere. A few of the units would be keeping the waste cooled while the rest powered the transmuters, the particle accelerators that “age” the waste into something we and the planet can live with.

And it will have to go on for decades. At each plant. All that power just to hold the line and clean up the mess…. but aneutronic fusion would give us that power and buy us the time we need. The power and the time to clean up the mess safely and affordably.