Re:General Fusion to build demonstration plant in UK
by eloff on Thursday June 17, 2021 @01:14PM
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I imagine you just replace the shielding on the inner walls, not the entire reactor.
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Re:General Fusion to build demonstration plant in UK
by Symmetry on Thursday June 17, 2021 @07:33PM
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The General Fusion design covers the walls with a molten mix of lead and lithium held in place by spinning the chamber. The lithium turns to tritium when you bang on it with a neutron to crease more inputs to the D-T fusion process. And lead doesn't really mind getting hit with neutrons. From the diagrams on Wikipedia[1] it looks like there is some normal metal exposed which might get neutron activated.