MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by ajdegol on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:52AM (#28467346)

The neutrons are what we will extract energy from, the alpha particles continue heating the plasma.

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by tsimionescu on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:39PM (#28472391)

Some do, but most of them escape from the plasma, carrying away energy, and need to be captured by the neutron blanket. This amounts to a whopping 80% of the reaction energy.

The real dream are fusion reactions which don't produce neutrons, such as H1+H1 or much more realistically, H2+B11 (though still many times harder than H2+H3).

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