Editing Joshua Pawlicki's Explanation of How It Works (section)

===''Fusion Generator''===
You've heard countless times that fusion reactors don't explode. This is true. Mostly. In theory, one could make a hydrogen bomb out of a reactor and then yes, it would proceed to explode. A fusion reaction, if upset, will typically unbalance itself, and use up its fuel too fast. This will likely evaporate the remaining fuel (safely kept in H2O), and cease the reaction. The result is a blast of radioactive energy but not much else. The radiation is nothing to laugh at, though. The long and short of it is that a fusion reaction destabilizes itself and burns out, unlike a fission reaction, which pretty much will continue to react with everything it finds nearby. However, a fusion generator leak is quite possible and exceedingly dangerous. The fuel input can be increased to compensate for the lost radiation and energy, although it won't be exact and won't fix the problem. Typically the only thing that can go wrong with the generator is a lack of fuel (in which case it safely shuts down), lack of plasmatic vector fluid (in which case, it will starve as soon as the fuel shuts off and just heats up constantly (dangerous, but not like a nuclear fission meltdown), breach of the containment (radiation bath, anyone?), or a breakdown of a turbine or something (in which case the device must be shut down and the part repaired or replaced). The problem with the fusion generator is that it's hard to repair, and shutting it off shuts off your only way to get it back on (unless you brought some of those electro-chemical backups to power the gravity drive long enough to restart the fusion reactor).
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