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OK, 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 o
by tgflynn 15y ago
OK, 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.