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To: TexasGator
True for magnetic confinement but not for inertial confinement.

For inertial confinement, the amount of material being compressed is measured in milligrams at most. If you figure an energy density scale up of a factor of a million for fusion over chemical reactions, the amount of energy generated per shot is on the order of a few kilograms of gasoline. Like as much as is released in a typical Hollywood car-explodes-on-impact stunt.

In the NIF (National Ignition Facility) the target chamber is a sphere ten meters in diameter, made of four-inch-thick aluminum. It is evacuated to a high vacuum before each shot. Its total volume is about 15000 cubic feet. I'm guessing it can handle the power output of a shot.

37 posted on 03/04/2021 8:21:52 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Steely Tom

In inertial-confinement fusion, the time involved is a few tenths of a billionth of a second and the density of the plasma has to reach 1031 nuclei per cubic meter—many times more dense than lead.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/mathematics/inertial-confinement


39 posted on 03/04/2021 8:28:48 PM PST by TexasGator (Z1z)
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