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Right. But slapping boiling water around the burning plasma is kind of a rube goldberg usually. See LLNL's LIFE design for example [1]. Things like molten salt
by acidburnNSA 4y ago
Right. But slapping boiling water around the burning plasma is kind of a rube goldberg usually. See LLNL's LIFE design for example [1]. Things like molten salt walls circulating through a steam turbine and all that.
There are other ideas too, but it's hard to beat a Rankine cycle.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Inertial_Fusion_Energy
- eternalban 4y agoHILIFE-II Inertial Confinement Fusion Power Plant Design: https://web.archive.org/web/20150404075829/https://hifweb.lbl.gov/public/Sharp/HIF_documents/Moir-HYYLIFE%20II%20design.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20150404075829/https://hifweb.lb...
- pfdietz 4y agoYou can't just slap boiling water around the burning plasma in a DT reactor, since you need almost all the neutrons to make more tritium. Water would absorb too many neutrons. The IFE designs use thick showers of liquid lithium or molten FLiBe for this reason.