Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech?

Re:Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear ... by lab-notes on Friday February 21, 2020 @08:36AM (#22382940)

This reads like a type of ICF which normally has a stream of pellets being fed in after the initial pellet has reached a hot enough temperature to sustain the fusion reaction.

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Re:Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear ... by londons_explore on Friday February 21, 2020 @09:53AM (#22383514)

I don't think the goal is to sustain the reaction here... I think the goal is to make a pulsed reactor, where you start the reaction on each pellet in turn. You could imagine a laser firing at 1000 pulses per second, and firing a stream of 1000 pellets per second into the reaction vessel that each pulse hits.

Pellets could turn out to be the size of a grain of sand.

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