Fusion Radioactive Waste Issues

Discuss the technical details of an "open source" community-driven design of a polywell reactor.

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Well fusion just got a little more expensive. :wink:
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Keegan wrote:Well fusion just got a little more expensive. :wink:
Keep in mind that the paper was based on neutron fluxes on the order of 5X to 20X those of a fission reactor.

The questions are the same (re pB11) however the amounts will be about 1,000X less due to the lower neutron flux.

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Shouldn't be a show stopper. I can't see any requirements more extreme than those for a gen IV high temp gas cooled reactor. I read the reference made concerning recycling. I don't think that's a major difficulty either. I seriously expect there'll be changes in alloy composition over the coming decades that would make recycling unfeasible anyhow.

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