Aneutronic Fusion Reactor Demo

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4 points·joak··5 comments

This sounds like a huge breakthrough. Not only are they getting rid of incredibly heavy and cumbersome shielding, but they're removing corrosive neutrons and heat. They're also converting energy directly to electricity. All this makes it far smaller than any other fusion device. Incredible!

Yes, I agree. But I don't know how far they are from an actual industrial level device, it might be just vaporware.

Also the lack of details may hide flaws in the idea. It might just a bs scheme with all the right keywords. Wait and see.

"We have shrunk the reactor to the size of a suitcase" (from their faq https://electricfusionsystems.com/#FAQ-home )

I am wondering, is this crackpot or real ?

Time will tell, but it's honestly pretty weird that every other major fusion project has used deuterium tritium reactions when aneutronic reactions have been possible all along. Building bigger and bigger hundred billion dollar reactors all for the same reaction proven to be a pain in the ass seems like the definition of insanity. Why haven't we been experimenting with other reactions like this 40 years ago?

Actually it is well known:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power#Fuels

Deuterium + Tritium is the most common fusion reaction to be implemented because it's easiest one, all the others need more energy to initiate.

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