Re:Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear ...
by EthanHeilman on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:53AM
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As a researcher I really like 'scientific breakthrough" articles where the impact never seems to materialize. It reminds me that technology development works very differently on earth than it does in my imagination.
Breakthroughs happen everyday but the road to real impact is longer and more failure prone after you make the breakthrough than before it.
- with some exceptions
But ITER uses huge tower cranes and trucks in the thousands of tons of material required to sustain a temperature hotter than the surface of Sol because of their fuel selection.
It seems the small player with a new approach that perhaps demands less complexity in their scaled up commercial reactor could win a commissioning contract with a lower bid during late 2020s early 2030s international bidding.
"First milestone is demonstrating the reactions, which should be easy."
And "chirped pulse laser amplification" is the recent discovery Hora says will make it possible.