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A few (soothing?) words from the NRC commissioner nominee on Fusion regulation at a senate hearing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbkhCZXZfaE

This was inchoate concern when I browsed the slideset, but crystallised today.

Why would the NRC vote itself out of a job by recommending light-touch regulation for fusion? (Assuming they notice fission is history)

There seems to be danger here: I worry.

Actually, there was this, emailed but I can't see it on their website. I've pasted it in below, though graphics are lost. But I agree, progress seems slow. Report Apr 28, 2022 Summary: FF-2B Plasma Purity Sets New Record US Government Launches Cost Sharing for Fusion Fusion Companies Announce Advanc...

Report from Feb:

https://lppfusion.com/wp-content/upload ... 202022.pdf

From a worker at Tokamak Energy, video 'The challenge of erosion of plasma facing surfaces in Fusion Energy', I think a talk to the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in South Yorkshire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV51_UpIwMo Long, lots of stuff I didn't know about sputtering, some basic stuff a...

"Roles of resonant muonic molecule in new kinetics model and muon catalyzed fusion in compressed gas" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-09487-0#Sec6 This is mostly above my pay grade, but if I'm reading figure 6 correctly they are talking about 1 muon catalysing ~80 fusion reactions at 100 ...

This : We tested a new configuration in Trenta and observed FRC plasmas that have 25% more trapped flux than has ever been recorded. This is awesome news. More flux means we are doing a better job of confining the plasma fuel. This ultimately means more energy output. Makes it sound like the new con...

Do they know enough about why trapped flux increased to be able to move further in that direction?

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-release ... 17509.html

Crossed in the post. Above is the press release.

https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-laser- ... nstration/

(not clear from the article when this news was released)

Agreed. Well into the too-good-to-be-true range. But their quite specific references to validation and testing are very bare-faced lies if they really have absolutely nothing.

Meh. I guess bare-faced liars exist. We’ll see.

No, I agree, the sceptic felt wrong for two reasons: 1) A stateless model might include ‘rates of change’ as inputs to avoid itself computing state changes and 2) his position is actually optimistic, in that his contention is that a better architected AI would do an even better job.

Quite a lot of coverage of this. Here is an article from Nature....

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-04301-9

And some skeptical comment (Not sure I'm convinced of this one).

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/02/19/ ... n-plasmas/

Did I translate this right, or did I get out of bed on the wrong side this morning? “Bruce Power, GF and the NII signed a non-binding document. They think that nuclear fusion might be a good thing. They are going to think about a strategy, and meanwhile publicise fusion’s benefits. GF said “We think...

RE: extracting CO2 from the atmosphere. At the last Ice age, CO2 was 180ppm. At 120ppm, plants start to die. The Planet was far to close to having not enough CO2 to be considering mining it to produce chemicals when plants do a great job of that. The current increase in CO2 has greened the planet. W...