Maybe. But I don’t want to be within 100 miles of this particular gizmo when they fire it up.
YEs, one can imagine the inferno should the containment fail.
I would t worry about it. In the event of a runaway reaction the amount of fuel is quite small and the fuel does not want to burn naturally. A distance of 2 city blocks would be enough buffer in the event of an explosion.
You have mush more to fear from a natural gas pipleine than this scientific endeavor.
“Maybe. But I don’t want to be within 100 miles of this particular gizmo when they fire it up”
History suggests that there is no danger. The problem with fusion energy generation is getting it going and keeping it going. I think only one group has even gotten close to generating as much energy as it takes to get the reaction going. In other words, fusion machines are still an energy suck, not an energy generator. And I think the longest reaction generated was in the billionths of seconds long. My info could be dated on these numbers. But a big explosion is almost impossible with these types of machines.