Yeah, because fusion has absolutely nothing to do with atomic nuclei.

A nuclear warhead works by compressing the nuclear explosive to critical density to create a run-away reaction. A nuclear reactor works by increasing neutron exposior on a target (which generates heat, which is used to boil water and power a steam engine, someone correct me if I'm wrong here). Different mechanism.

Yes. Actually, if there were no nuclear fission inside the Earth, the core would have cooled down long ago and the Earth wouldn't be volcanically active anymore. At least not as active as it is today (compare Mars, which has cooled internally and is now a mostly dead world). Tidal forces from the Moon also produce some heat, but a bit less I think.

as far as I know the core heat is generated by magetism and the moon has ( as with a LOT of other tings *) a big part in it.

• The moon also stabelizes the rotating and the magnetic axis

The second kind is the simpelest, but can only be built with uranium.
Plutonium will start a chain reaction even before the 2 parts form a supercritical mass, ripping the bomb appart before a significant part of the plutonium has split.
This would result in a verry small "nuclear" explosion and a lot of fall out

That's why a plutonium bomb is built like the first type ( compression bomb)

Your 'logic' went like this: "Pigs are dirty. Cops are dirty. Therefore cops are pigs". A logical fallacy.

There were many accidents in nuclear power plants all around the world after Chernobyl, none of which was the size of Chernobyl.

So you really think people that leave the comfort of their living rooms and focusing their entire life on protecting the environment are a bunch of loonies?

Hey, it does not surprise me a bit. After all, Bush was elected. And people support Intelligent Design over Evolution.

Accidents may happen not due to bad design but due to human negligence. A new reactor may be 100% safe for now, but not in 30 years when its components are not replaced with new ones.

Nuclear and radiation accidents

What I am trying to say is that we can not rule scientists as liars or crazy madmen just because they do not support our policies. I am speaking in 1st person, but I am talking in general: USA policies, France policies, etc. These people are scientists, first and foremost. If they saw something illogical, they wouldn't support it. And it is not like they are paid by someone to damage USA's economy or something.

If we find a way to safely produce power from fusion, then it will be accepted and I am sure Greenpeace will not have a problem with it, as long as it is a proven fact that fusion is safe.

Car accidents do not pollute the water, air and ground for millenia, nor they result in the birth of deformed children or in cancer.

Furthermore, counting deaths as absolute numbers is misleading, at least. You should count the dangerousness of an event by applying weights to it. For example, number of dead people/number of responsible people or period of accident/deaths. You will see that with a nuclear accident, it takes very few people and a very small period of time to kill millions, something not possible with car accidents.

Some things never change. For example, accidents in flights have increased because companies reduced safety for economic reasons.

There is nothing that guarantees that a prosperous society that can maintain nuclear reactors today can do so in the future. And when its economy suffers, they will try to do everything to cover it up, including lack of proper maintenance of nuclear power plants...and then one day, 'kaboom'.

Sad day today. You all people have more faith in Bush and religion than in science? Perhaps humanity deserves what it gets.

Instead of blaming politicians and greedy corporations, you blame scientists!

The propaganda against Greenpeace has been started by the same group that started the propaganda against the United Nations. This group includes the current USA government, the British government, the defense industries and the pharmaceutical/genetically modified crops companies that do not want to see their profits set back by taking steps to ensure the environment is preserved.

Nope, his logic was fine, actually. You said that fission reactors are bad, since they can kill people if someone makes an error. He said that cars and planes and stuff can also kill people, if there's an error. That's perfectly valid.

To be honest, I'd sooner believe the people who actually do this stuff for a living! I can put on white coat, but that doesn't make me into a doctor.

I doubt anyone here supports Bush or intelligent design. I don't know where you got that from. I'd say you're exercising Greenpeace tactics:

And the components are not replaced by new ones, because...?

Car's do pollute air and water, and that causes all kinds of nasty stuff. And saying that a couple of people can kill millions when talking about nuclear reactors is just nonsense. That's simply not true. Also, my point is that if you count the average amount of people killed by nuclear accidents and by cars per year, the amount is way higher for cars. Same for injuries, even if you count mutations and whatnot as injuries in the case of nuclear accidents.

This confuses me. Who's blaming anything on anyone?

Yes, and how many of those did anything outside the site where they happened?

Haven't we already told you that that Just. Doesn't. Happen?

No, Greenpeace has done all that by and to themselves. Sorry. No conspiracy here.

It's nothing like a nuclear reactor. The Sun is a fusion reactor though.

Several reasons, some already given above:
1) Ongoing radioactivity in the core and mantle is a source of heat.
2) Tidal forces from the Moon heat up the Earth's interior.
3) The Earth isn't old enough for the interior to have cooled down yet(!).

And, of course, that wasn't in a nuclear power plant.

The real problem is that there are just too many people on the Earth. If the population was much lower we would have more resources and time to figure out Fusion power, or better renewable energy sources.

Didn't someone say something about an atomic bomb killing millions of people...?

Well, I know miran was working on a surprise at his plant .

Well, it certainly killed me. I don't know about the rest of the population.