“Like Cox said in the programme Britain spends more on ring tones than it does on nuclear fusion.”
Yes it’s sad but not untypical. The Govt would rather spend billions on building another MOX plant; the last one also cost billions and produced almost no usable fuel [shrugs]. But clearly everyone else is spending much much more on fusion that the UK. Those facilities Brian was visiting cost £££££££££, and they were not paid for by charity.
There are other fission solutions using more available and safer raw materials. They were successfully prototyped in the 60s, but never commercialised. If they had been, we would have had that technology available since the mid 1980’s.
IMO, if you want to get the British more interested in our energy future than ringtones, you have to have some regular blackouts. Folks will soon get interested when they can’t watch football, come dine with me or play on their XBox.