Germany launches world's largest nuclear fusion reactor

[eXtremeDR]

Saudi-Arabia: "Fusion is witchcraft!"

[rockabilly]

Germany is holding the key for a better world with enough, clean energy and the end of fossil fuels

[violinonero]

why so many people find it so hard to say "nuclear"? it's not "nucular" for god's sake it's "new-clear"

[Sebastian-hgxc]

That "youtube.com" source made me laugh. If you want to credit the source, do it properly and at least give the channel name, or even better the video link. Just putting "youtube.com" is like saying "I got it from the internet". You should know better.

[ToxicGreen]

TONY STARK WAS ABLE TO BUILD THIS IN A CAVE!

[Gribbo]

"And that's still decades away". Really? Its a long standing joke that, whatever decade you ask in, nuclear fusion technology is always "decades away". But good luck to them and I expect we will get there in the end. Hope so anyway.

[DanM]

No doubt Greenpeace will hate it and insist the whole world rely on windmills..

[altafalinaushad]

What a time to live in. Kudos to Germany from India!

[dreamingflurry]

They could probably make it happen within a decade if they had the military-industrial-complex's resources (and if they worked around the clock constructing prototypes etc.), which every nuclear power (every state that has nuclear weapons!) has used in the past to make breeder reactors (to make plutonium!) etc.

[hallol]

That s not like our Airport BER in Berlin.

[opsimathics]

nucular nucular nucular
lol this person has a job

[johnsmith]

i thought germany swore off nuclear power after fukushima disaster

[purepk]

I guess they got sick of paying Russia for oil 19 year ago

[procerusgigas]

It's actually very funny when you think about it, all that tech, fancy fuel source, just to boil some water in a container and create vapor that will get turbines moving....

[naseimwind]

The tokamak is easier to built due to its symmetric structure. However, it is less efficient at the same size than a stellerator. The stellerator is more complex to built and development started later as magnets of the required size, strength and accuracy became technically available later. The stellerator can run a continuous plasma. This is according to the Max Planck Society who are operating a Tokamak in Munich and the Wendelstein Greifswald, Germany, both successfully. The biggest problem is, that you have to have reactor size to come to a positive energy balance and ITER is expected to be the first reactor achieving this.

[Requiredfields]

Fine but if something's 100 million degrees there must be some risk involved. I mean that's pretty hot.

[paulanderson]

The word is nuclear not nukiller. I like the way we're told that gas is heated to 100 million degrees and then we move swiftly onward. I'd like to know how they get it to this temperature.

[raoulduke]

Instead of wasting money in useless wars, you should invest in free and clean energy

[IAmTheWalrusOfficially]

Why can't that dude say freaking "Nuclear". It's not freaking "nuceler". Damn. Why is he commentating these kinds of videos if he can't pronounce the most basic words in the topic right?

[Nevermoreu]

he talks about nuclear fission as if its coal power when hes referring to it he is talking about the commercial 1st and 2nd generation nuclear fission power plants if we used 5th and 6th generation nuclear fission it reuses its fuel and can use nuclear waste that has been stored also they are completely safe from meltdown look up 5th 6th gen nuclear fission power-plants. and you will never want to use any other form of power.