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If nuclear fusion were to become useful for residential heating, could the plasma be useful for fake fireplaces?
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Even if your home is powered by nuclear energy, you still don’t have uranium fuel rods in your fireplace.
True, but I was specifically talking about nuclear fusion, which would entail helium/hydrogen plasma rather than fissionable material.
Do you expect to keep million degree hot plasma in your fireplace?
It'd heat up the room, though. And the next couple of rooms. Or houses.
No, that still probably wouldn’t work out, as the other comments have pointed out. Just clarifying that the dangerous aspects of what I asked wouldn’t involve uranium in particular.
Right, it uses something that’ll kill you much faster.
The thermometer says 36 centigrade, which isn't great but it's not terrible.