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Seems to me that if it won't come out in one of the reprocessing steps like most of the other elements it is because it is VERY stable in the salt solution. If so, won't it just turn to rock when it cools? A rock very soluble in water then. If I make a guess: You should be better of in the LFTR. No...

I have been reading up all little on the liquid flouride reactor. The transuranics are to be removed by continuously distilling a fraction of the circulating liquid fuel stream. Noble gasses and iodine will be taken away by letting them evaporate from the hot fuel in a spray chamber. And U233 breede...

Someone with the proper bakground daring to have an opinion on this? Josephchikva perhabs? May I guess that the physics in this case does not allow any predictions of high probability? It, seemingly, rarely does in the case of devices for production of fusion energy. I googled magnetized inertia fus...

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*delurks* AWE = Atomic Weapons Establishment Kinda explains what they want out of it. *returns to lurking* indeed. but what do they know that we don't? (besides 'a lot'). why right now? i see there is also a fuel pellet processing industry up for grabs, if anything comes of it, if they can shoot do...

A swedish-japanese paper of possible interest? http://www.google.se/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=8&ved=0CFEQFjAH&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwebbshop.cm.se%2FSystem%2FViewResource.aspx%3Fp%3DEnergimyndigheten%26rl%3Ddefault%3A%2FResources%2FPermanent%2FStatic%2F6d5bbc764d4942c89612bc9c5a9c4990%2FER2006_42W.pdf&rct=j...

The only thing that could go wrong, is that their scaling laws are off,

Isn't that what has gone wrong in every promising fusion energy concept to this date?

http://pop.aip.org/resource/1/phpaen/v18/i5/p056110_s1?isAuthorized=no A high temperature field reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the newly built, world’s largest compact toroid (CT) facility, C-2, by colliding and merging two high-β CTs produced using the advanced field-reversed θ-p...

http://www.plasma.ee.kansai-u.ac.jp/iec ... s/Carr.pdf

http://www.plasma.ee.kansai-u.ac.jp/iec ... ogers2.pdf

Had there been a little less polybullshitbullying here we might even have had the pleasure of an educated opinion on this........

I've PM:ed dr Carlson and politely asked him whether he would like to share his views.

"What is even more remarkable is that the final merged FRC state exhibits a dramatic improvement in transport with flux confinement times approaching classical values. The formation of such a well-confined, long-lived, high-$\beta $ plasma state via collisional merging and magnetic reconnection shou...

If someone comes up with a working shortcut to commercial fusion power: Assuming there are defendable intellectual rights on it, wouldn't it be a good strategy to use the taxpayers money to buy him out and make the technology available to everyone? It's like working with a bad set of tools: Sooner o...

nextbigfuture wrote:http://www.lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.c ... &Itemid=90

0.5 kilojoules in the beams and 1 kilojoule in the plasmoid

I sincerely doubt they have Q=2