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Re:Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear ... by randallsquared on Friday February 21, 2020 @08:29AM (#22382894)
The Hydrogen Boron reaction is real and well-known to be a way to do fusion without lots of stray neutrons. The sticking point has always been that it's more difficult to cause that reaction than deuterium/tritium or deuterium/deuterium.
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Re:Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear ... by jwbwater on Friday February 21, 2020 @12:24PM (#22384862)
So the fusion here is where two protons form an alpha particle? They show a proton hitting B11 and generating two alpha particles and another proton.

1 proton + (5 protons, 6 neutrons) -> 3 * (2 protons, 2 neutrons)

https://www.hb11.energy/our-technology

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