Quote Originally Posted by Crocodile
Quote Originally Posted by Ramil
I somehow know the answer and the answer is no, a fusion plant cannot be 'safer'. The only thing that matters is the amount of 'controlled energy'. If it suddenly becomes 'uncontrolled' - the whole thing explodes.
Let's not jump too much ahead, as we shouldn't underestimate the future engineers. I'm not a big nuclear physicist, so I have no clue on all the ways to control the reaction. Perhaps, they would install large permanent magnets for safety to encompass the plasma. Or, perhaps, they would build it the way that as soon as the magnetic control is lost and the plasma loses its density, the reaction stops momentarily. Who knows?
We shouldn't underestimate Murphy's law either.