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I don't seem to be allowed to reply to the comment below: > How does your design address that ? Are you saying the fusion reactions would be triggered by the me
by tocomment 15y ago
I don't seem to be allowed to reply to the comment below:
> How does your design address that ? Are you saying the fusion reactions would be triggered by the mechanical compression of the pistons in the cylinder ?
I'm saying fusion reactions are triggered by the detonation of a hydrogen bomb (fission triggers fusion inside the bomb).
- tgflynn 15y agoOK, so then what you're proposing isn't a pure fusion reactor but a hybrid fusion-fission reactor. That's probably going to combine many of the disadvantages of fusion and fission. You get both the highly radioactive and long-life decay products of fission, still need relatively rare fissile fuel and you get the containment problems of fusion. Moreover if you need a fission explosion trigger you need a critical mass of fissile material for each detonation so there's a limit to how far you can scale down the process. I think it's highly unlikely this could be practical.