The nuclear fusion reactor as a breeder for plutonium 239

If electricity production in a nuclear fusion reactor is already too expensive, then there will be a tremendous desire to breed plutonium 239 with it.

Only 0.7% uranium 235, the rest is uranium 238
In natural uranium deposits, the natural distribution is 0.7% uranium-235, the rest is uranium-238. What to do with it? In some wars in recent years, depleted uranium has been used as ammunition. Nice and heavy, you can make holes in tanks with it. Depleted means that as much of the valuable uranium 235 as possible has been removed from it, leaving almost only uranium 238.

The alchemist's dream: turning iron into gold
Similar to the alchemist's dream of turning iron into gold, there is a process for turning uranium 238 into plutonium 239. All you need is fast neutrons and you have fuel for nuclear power plants or nuclear explosives for atomic bombs. In conventional nuclear reactors with water cooling, the neutrons are slowed down too much. This is why fast breeder reactors were built. Special nuclear power plants that are cooled with sodium so that the neutrons do not lose the speed in the cooling water that is necessary for the uranium-238 -> plutonium-239 conversion.

Fusion reactors as the better fast breeder reactor
In contrast, the fusion reactor is ideally suited for plutonium breeding. A fusion reactor can convert enough uranium 238 into plutonium 239 to supply around 10 conventional nuclear power plants with fuel.

Politics - political targets of PEGE
	Nonpolitical, pragmatic, on the other side of ideologies counts in our politic only one target: A long time lasting civilization able to develop further on a stable base.

Philosophy
	Long-term planning and stability have to be the guiding rules of politics. A philosophy based on the mathematic branch of games theory.

Living standard
	What is living standard? How is living standard correctly measured? Is it possible, that our living standard declines drastic, while uncorrect numbers want to make us belive it's like paradise?

Taxes tax politics
	The consequences of the tax politic for humans and environment. The politicians claim to fight for humans and the environment, but the tax politics shows the exact opposit.

Energy politic
	Decades of wrong energy politic. Instead of more living standard with less energy usage, partial the contrary was reached. A result of the wrong tax politic.

Fuel cycle in nuclear fusion reactors
	In a torus system as planned for ITER, only a small amount of deuterium and tritium is fused per combustion cycle before the resulting helium leads to the process being aborted.

Cooling - the limits of nuclear fusion
	Whether burning fossil fuels, splitting nuclei or fusing nuclei, every power plant requires cooling. The cooling requirement for nuclear fusion in particular is very high.

Electricity costs for the fusion reactor
	Cost forecast for the production of electricity from nuclear fusion. Extrapolation of known facts to a profitability calculation for fusion power plants.

JET and ITER nuclear fusion
	Key figures from the energy balance. What colorful glossy brochures to the responsible politicians conceal, but is very easy to understand.

Correctly interpreting the energy balance
	If an energy balance of 1:5 were to be achieved at ITER, the experiment would still have failed, because this would be unusable when converted to power plant operation.

Nuclear fusion - entry into the total nuclear state
	If the first nuclear fusion reactor goes into operation at a time of exploding oil prices and energy shortages, it will not be possible to stop plutonium breeding.