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Then you still have few megawatts of neutrons! More than in the most power dense fission reactors, but without water to protect the reactor parts.
> which will mostly be the lower-energy neutrons of D-D reactions.
2.45 MeV. Which may be better, or worse from the capture, and transmutation side.
On the bonus side, it's just enough to fission U238! It may make sense to just to run it to burn U238, or possibly Th232.
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Then you still have few megawatts of neutrons! More than in the most power dense fission reactors, but without water to protect the reactor parts.
> which will mostly be the lower-energy neutrons of D-D reactions.
2.45 MeV. Which may be better, or worse from the capture, and transmutation side.
On the bonus side, it's just enough to fission U238! It may make sense to just to run it to burn U238, or possibly Th232.