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To: SunkenCiv

The problem isn’t creating fusion the problem is containing it so it can be used. A hydrogen bomb is ‘fusion’. Can we contain pieces of the Sun? Nope, that level of heat burns through everything. I just don’t get this one Civ...


33 posted on 05/06/2024 1:34:09 PM PDT by GOPJ (Takes 6 to 9 months to 'organize' a nationwide protest.This one was organized after October 7th...)
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To: GOPJ
Toroidal magnetic containment attempts to confine the reaction to an area not in direct contact with the machine. A longterm problem for any eventual working device will be that neutrons are released by fusion and aren't confined by electric or magnetic fields. Neutrons degrade whatever they run into, over time leaving the tokamak (for example) radioactive. There's also a need for care taken to select the materials, to avoid the high temps and neutron bombardment from starting an uncontrolled fission reaction. Yeah, I want a fusion reactor in my house. :^)

34 posted on 05/06/2024 2:09:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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