Nuclear Fusion

1. Nuclear Fusion Morgan Pedneault Laina Oldford

2. Risks and Benefits • Ecological • Benefits uses little fuel, little waste, can still be produced when coal and oil become scarce, large reserves of uranium available • Risks high temperatures, nuclear explosions produce radiation, waste disposal problems, nuclear reactors only last forty to fifty years, non renewable, thermal pollution, radioactive waste.

3. Risks and Benefits • Societal • Benefits fuels ships and submarines, creates many jobs • Risks thermal pollution, radioactive waste (has a lifespan of 5000 to 10 000 years), nuclear weapons use, causes health problems such as cancer, an area contaminated by radiationis inhabitable until radiation levels drop. The H-Bomb that was dropped on Japan in 1945

4. Risks and Benefits • Economic • Benefits relatively cheap to run, powerful, reliable and efficient (in 2007, produced 14% of the world’s electricity) • Risks plants are expensive to build, the safety to provide for workers is expensive Nuclear Power Plant

5. Comparisons • Nuclear energy and thermal energy when compared, nuclear fusion is much safer on the situations of pollution and safety. • Studies show that nuclear energy is safer than most other energy sources, including solar power. • When compared to hydro electricity dams, nuclear energy is cheaper and less dangerous. Hydro electric dams damage the environment and has made certain species of fish gone extinct.

6. Percent Energy Efficiency of Nuclear Fusion • (35%/100) x (-1.7964X10^12 J) = 6.3x 10^11J is the energy output.               That’s the percent for the Industrial - (JET)(10.4%/100) x (-1.7964X10^12 J) = 1.9x 10^11J Is the energy output.           Commercial Sector (Australia) (13%/100) x (-1.7064X10^12 J) = 2.3 x 10^11J is the energy output             Residential (Australia)

7. Sustainability • Economic Sustainability: Capacity that ecologically the nation can maintain the sustainability of the object.  • Ecological Sustainability: A certain capacity that an biological system can maintain in an healthy amount.

8. Economic Technology: is an interdisciplinary engineering science having to do with the efficient, safe, environmentally friendly and economical extraction, conversion, transportation, storage and use of energy, targeted towards yielding high efficiency whilst skirting side effects on humans, nature and the environment.Examples: Tidal, Solar, Wind, Geothermal, Hydro, renewable/non-renewable resources. • Nuclear Fusion is sustainable because of it’s low cost, it is reliable, highly efficient, uses little fuel and has little waste.