Dennis Whyte

That's the other part of it.

So by the way, this is what...

very much distinguishes it from fission.

It's not a process that can run away from you because it's basically thermally stable.

That means is that you want to run it at the optimization in temperature such that if it deviates away from that temperature, the reactivity gets lower.

And the reason for this is because it's hard to keep the reactivity going.

Like it's a very hard fire to keep going, basically.

It varies from concept to concept, but in generally, it's fairly easy to do that.

And the easiest thing, it can't physically run away from you because the other part of it is that there's just, at any given time, there's a very, very small amount of fuel available to fuse anyway.

So this means that that's always intrinsically limited to this.

So even if the power consumption of the device goes up, it just kind of burns itself out immediately.

Fusion is interesting because it's not really directly weaponizable because what I mean by that is that you have to work very hard to make these conditions at which you can get energy gain from fusion work.

And this means that when we design these devices with respect to application in the energy field, is that they, you know, while they will, because they're producing large amounts of power and they will have hot things inside of them, this means that they have like a level of industrial hazard, which is very similar to what you would have like in a chemical processing plant or anything like that.

And any kind of energy plant actually has these as well too.

But the underlying, underneath it, core technology can't be directly used in a nefarious way because of the power that's being emitted.

It just basically, if you try to do those things, typically it just stops working.

I mean, usually what we worry about is the viability, because in the end we build pretty complex objects to realize these requirements.

And so what we try really hard to do is like not damage those components, but those are things which are internal to the fusion device.

And this is not something that you would...

consider about like it would, as you say, destroy human civilization because that release of energy is just inherently limited because of the fusion process.