If fusion goes wrong it just stops
if fission goes wrong it explodes and you get hot flamy death everywhere.

And I'm not remotely convinced we are in any way "adept" at dealing with nuclear waste. Burying it in a big hole, a hole that they can't dig anywhere because nobody wants it, isn't really dealing with it, it's just pushing it under the carpet.

I'm totally in favour of building a fuck load of new fission plants though, it would make the UK pretty much self reliant. If we did what the french did and just build a standard design several times we'd be creating our own cottage industry too.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 18 Oct 2012, 13:47, Reply)