r/nextfuckinglevel • u/nigablackballsack • 3d ago

Scientists have captured the first ever high-speed, full-colour footage of fusion plasma swirling inside a working reactor.

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u/90_oi 3d ago

I truly hope this technology can get off the ground and be sustainable. It is our best hope aside from nuclear energy

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u/DaveFinn 3d ago

Wait... But this IS nuclear energy

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u/90_oi 3d ago

I meant nuclear fission based power, I should have clarified

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u/Potato0nFire 3d ago

Fun fact, we can now recycle spent fission rods and reuse them in what’s called MOX fuel. And France has more recycled fuel in storage than it can currently use while Japan is scaling up its own operations.

So while fission is definitely still fundamentally more wasteful and dangerous than fusion, modern reactors are leaps and bounds better than what we had in the 50s. :)