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I'm not sure I understand what's 'science-fiction' about lead or beryllium?
by WorkLobster 2y ago
I'm not sure I understand what's 'science-fiction' about lead or beryllium?
- credit_guy 2y agoHere's some articles about the neutron multipliers. You can go through them and see that they are all talking about feasibility and theoretical considerations. It's not just as simple as shooting some neutrons at a block of lead of beryllium on one side and more neutrons come on the other side. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022311520312010 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00223... [2] https://scipub.euro-fusion.org/wp-content/uploads/eurofusion/WPBBPR18_19890_submitted.pdf https://scipub.euro-fusion.org/wp-content/uploads/eurofusion... [3] https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000160103 https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000160103
- WorkLobster 2y agoNo, I agree, but you specifically mentioned "science-fiction" in the second post, and implicitly denied even their existence in the first post. I think there's a reasonable distance between that, and economic considerations / the fact that test hardware has yet to exist that's presented in those papers.