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I imagine you just replace the shielding on the inner walls, not the entire reactor.
by eloff 5y ago
I imagine you just replace the shielding on the inner walls, not the entire reactor.
- Symmetry 5y agoThe 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. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Fusion