When I say “fake fireplace”, I mean something like those structures fueled by fossil methane that produce flame and heat but obviously don’t burn actual wood
Plasma is a bit hotter than your gas fireplace flame. Common lighter flame is at about 600 deg C and while it’s possible to create plasma which is nearly ambient temperature in controlled environments it’s generally tens of thousands of degrees (plasma arc welding for example) up to tens or hunderds of million degrees celsius (inside fusion generator).
That’s mostly why fusion energy is so difficult problem to solve in the first place as there’s no materials which could withstand the heat. So, no, it wouldn’t be useful as a fireplace. It would of course radiate heat, but it would also light your (and your neighbours) house on fire, so not that useful.
Not to mention that the plasma arc would be so bright that it would blind you.
Even worse, wavelengths of light change based on temperature so multi million degree plasma will blast you with ultraviolet and X-ray radiation
Nuclear fusion will happen inside a power plant far away and homes will get the electricity like from any other power plants. So no.
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?
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.
It’d heat up the room, though. And the next couple of rooms. Or houses.
The fusion is activating the walls of the reactor, they get somewhat radioactive.
