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They're not even sure tokamaks can be run steady-state and not pulsed. That's hand-waved as an "engineering problem" like everything else tokamak-related. Stell
by moogly 4y ago
They're not even sure tokamaks can be run steady-state and not pulsed. That's hand-waved as an "engineering problem" like everything else tokamak-related. Stellarators at least look like they could, since you don't need to induce a current to generate the magnetic field via induction.
- willis936 4y agoPulsed reactors is not a showstopper. If you pulse heat into a coolant blanket there is plenty of thermal energy buffer. Hitting 90+% duty cycle is an engineering challenge with no physics hurdles.