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Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by FuckButtons on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:18AM (#33955518)
A fusion rector does not have control rods. It has a magnetic containment field around a plasma which is, something like 10x hotter than the sun. if you put a control rod in there it would instantly vaporize.
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Re:Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab by HillRat on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:37AM (#33955776)
At the risk of being pedantic, if this is the LLNL NIF, then it's ICF, not MCF, though putting a graphite rod at the heart of a laser-driven thermonuclear event probably looks about the same either way.
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