[wildcard_redneck]

“Maybe. But I don’t want to be within 100 miles of this particular gizmo when they fire it up.”

I would t worry about it. In the event of a runaway reaction the amount of fuel is quite small and the fuel does not want to burn naturally. A distance of 2 city blocks would be enough buffer in the event of an explosion.

You have mush more to fear from a natural gas pipleine than this scientific endeavor.

[Zathras]

Exactly....
Some heat and neutron emission but that is about it.
There isn’t enough Hydrogen in the reaction for anything more than a quick flash limited to around 25 ft in diameter.

Still, my feeling is magnetic containment will never be successful as the atoms are too far apart to sustain a reaction.

Inertial Fusion might be the only way they can get Fusion to work.
Now how they get a constant reaction going with it....yet another major problem.