r/fusion • u/Sun_In_A_Bottle • 14d ago

Why fusion, over everything else?

$15.2 billion in private investment over the past 5 years!

For an industry that is projected to need 1 million workers by 2040, how is the global private workforce roughly ONLY 4,000?!

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u/andyfrance 10d ago edited 10d ago

There have been a handful of nuclear powered cargo ships. None were a commercial success and one was even converted to diesel.

There are however a few nuclear powered icebreakers that are very successful.

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u/ZorbaTHut 10d ago

If you really try, enough regulations and bureaucracy can make anything impractical.

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u/andyfrance 10d ago

True. And a great source of income for the lawyers too. Both sides of the legal proceedings make money out of it. The judge too if it needs deciding in court, or judges when the appeal process gets triggered.

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u/ZorbaTHut 10d ago

Yeah. It's an unfortunate situation overall.