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Currently, Cold Fusion used in small scale isotope breeders for medical purposes. One 2kWt breeder with CF can replace 100kWt traditional breeding plant.
by oneshtein 3y ago
Currently, Cold Fusion used in small scale isotope breeders for medical purposes. One 2kWt breeder with CF can replace 100kWt traditional breeding plant.
- ggm 3y agoCite please. I think you've mistaken neutron feed sourced medical imaging radionuclide from low energy research reactions for cold fusion e.g. https://www.itnonline.com/content/fda-approves-additional-molybdenum-99-mo-99-filling-lines-northstar-medical-radioisotopes https://www.itnonline.com/content/fda-approves-additional-mo... NorthStar produces non-uranium based Mo-99 in collaboration with its manufacturing partner, the University of Missouri Research Reactor (MURR), in Columbia, Mo., using neutron capture technology.
- oneshtein 3y agoSee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtfUeip4vyA&t=335s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtfUeip4vyA&t=335s
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- ggm 3y agoThat's not "cold fusion" that's low energy fusion. It explicitly has surplus neutrons and radioactivity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_electrostatic_confinement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_electrostatic_confi... It's energy consuming. It's just lower energy than other methods, and it's emphatically not cold fusion.
- oneshtein 3y agoLow Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR), AKA Cold Fusion.
- tomrod 3y agoWhen someone mentions cold fusion, they are explicitly referencing a net energy-producing process that operates at room temperature. That isn't what you are referencing.
- oneshtein 3y ago> Cold fusion is a hypothesized type of nuclear reaction that would occur at, or near, room temperature. Wikipedia It works at near room temperature. The goal of the reactor in the video is to produce isotopes. It does the job.
- jacquesm 3y agoIt can not ever produce net energy in this setting, so no, it doesn't do the job. It is in a room, but the temperature inside that vessel is anywhere north of 35,000 C. Unless you have a very hot room that isn't 'room temperature' by any stretch of the definition. Note that room temperature is about the temperature of the process not the temperature of the building containing that process.
- oneshtein 3y ago35kK in this reactor is much closer to room temperature than 150MK in ITER, isn't?
- sudosysgen 3y agoSure, but that's fine and expected since you don't need a sufficient fusion density for net energy.
- MayeulC 3y agoLook, call 35K cold if you want. It's relatively easy to make some fusion at home [1] at even colder temperatures. However, the real issue here is __producing__ energy (edit: more than you put in). This has never been done in a sustained way (H-bombs produce net energy, there were some promising inertial confinement and tokamak results recently, but never for sustained periods of time). And in the chain, it's pointed out quite clearly that everybody understands "cold fusion" as referring to "net positive energy". [1]: https://fusor.net/board/index.php https://fusor.net/board/index.php
- dang 3y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36940489.
- oneshtein 3y agoWhy not to just shadow ban me again, but leave thread intact? Or cut it at one level up???