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...There will still be huge cost associated with cleanup ... Seems highly unlikely since any leakage would either freeze on the leak, plugging it, or drip to the floor where it would freeze and be easily chipped and swept then hit with the nuclear equivalent of a Stanley Steemer. Yes and no... Even...

paperburn1 wrote:...There will still be huge cost associated with cleanup ...

Seems highly unlikely since any leakage would either freeze on the leak, plugging it, or drip to the floor where it would freeze and be easily chipped and swept then hit with the nuclear equivalent of a Stanley Steemer.

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/02/22/fear-of-nuclear-part-2/ A bunch of stuff I didn't know about the "linear no threshold" (LNT) hypothesis on radiation induced cancer, and how experts disagree. Also very interesting datapoint a on the lack of excess cancers due to higher background radiation, a...

When you have Molten Salt Reactor, you can have a continuous fission product removal system too. You almost need one to get to true breeding level with a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR). With such a FP removal system, they don't build up and they don't present a problem. But even if you leave...

Dan,
Your point about a "tiny amount of fuel" needed for fusion also applies to Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTRs). They only need as much fissile material as required to achieve criticality because the reactor can be continuously refueled. Don't refuel and the reactor stops.

The issue is, Dan, that the "obvious radiation problems" are part and parcel of those regulatory burdens that stem from a basic lie. That lie results in ALARA (As Low As REASONABLY Achievable) being implemeted as "As Low As Ridiculously Achievable). That costs BIG money.

Here is what you do with "Nuclear Waste" First BURN IT, then BURY IT! As it happens, the waste everyone keeps fretting about (called Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) but which I like to call Lightly Used Fission Fuel (LUFF)) is actually about 97% perfectly good UNspent fuel and only about 3% real waste. Th...

Why would anomalously LOW conductivity be superconductivity?

That's why we never hear the Greens talking about the ozone hole anymore, it did it's job, services no longer required. Yes, because fortunately we actually got regulation to shut down production of CFCs (and other things) and now the ozone layer is recovering nicely. No, we just replaced them with...

Maui wrote: That was the plan! Brilliant, wasn't it? A livable minimum wage would have been impossible to push through Congress, so, lucky for us, 121 years ago our Marxist predecessors... yada yada...

Strawman much?

Looks like the weather isn't permitting ... To get space launch cost down and routine up where we really want it, we need to somehow get to the point where common inclement weather isn't cause to postpone a launch. Inclement weather still postpones the launch ofcommercial aircraft. I think what you...

Another consideration: It's been suggested that shifting the balance in p-B11 plasma to proton heavy has a favorable effect on fusion/loss rates. Doing this with D-B10 would further shift the fusion balance towards D-D with the boron serving mostly to increase radiative losses. I was under the impr...

Still no data on the Xsection? It seems amazing that nothing is available.

ladajo wrote:A chart of the nuclides can help, I like this one:

https://www-nds.iaea.org/relnsd/vcharth ... tHTML.html

Sorry, how does that help determine the Xsection curve for D-B10 fusion?

PS: The deuterium has ~ twice the mass of the proton, but at the same energy it is traveling at 1/4th the speed, and it is the speed more so than the inertia or momentum of the approaching particle that determines if a close enough approach occurs. The momentum scales linearly with mass, but the sp...