Beautiful. This is pretty much the last thing I ever expected to read on the interweb.
I'm not an expert in this field either, but I have been following the development of the Focus Fusion reactor being developed by Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, which is where I was introduced to the concept of aneutronic fusion. This video is a fairly decent introduction to their approach (note that the plan is to use the standard deuterium fuel first as it's cheaper and easier to work with, but the design can potentially support an aneutronic fuel such as pB11 in the future):
If we do eventually progress to aneutronic fusion test reactors, we will first have to get neutron-emitting fusion reactions working to the level of substantial net power generation, even if a given test reactor only lasts a few months before neutron irradiation becomes unmanageable.
Isn't that problem solved with aneutronic fusion?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
Of course we should focus on getting fusion working (working in the sense of providing more energy than we put in), regardless of whether we use the aneutronic approach or not, but as the field develops I'm optimistic we'll find ways to have robust fusion reactors.