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Al Peffley
The approach that TAE Technologies has taken requires no alternating charged "D" type magnets (like in a cyclotron) to control the particles velocity in the process. Two linear beams are aimed at each other into a specially designed plenum [cavity] that integrates the beam particles into a fusion of the beam plasmas. There are two torroidal [donut-shaped] looking objects that collect the energy from the beam combining prosess in the cavity; side beams transfer voltage to some type of grid storage transformer stations next to the power "machine" fusion generation area. Some application of Magneto Hydrodynamics technology is also mentioned(?).The big challenge will be in managing the extreme heat phases of the process within the plenum and energy collection systems. There is no steam subsystem or used nuclear rods biproducts from the beam fusion reactor because the process involes gas dynamic (plasma) beam forming. Boron is mentioned. It will need a "catalist" reaction to start it as Bob mentions. My directed energy weapons experience is tangent to the scientific work done in the 1970's and 1990's on USAF advanced development projects at Kirtland AFB and with the small reactor program at Sandia Labs. The Russians and those Portuguese physicists involed in the Brown University and MIT shootings are/were directly involved in the emerging TAE Technology Projects. The Economics students at Brown were not the disenchanted shooter's intended target; he wanted to kill the physics professor and graduate students at Brown University who also used that facility room. Nuno at MIT was successful in his carreer and the active shooter was not. The MIT Physics Department Head was Obama's second term DoE Secretary (Dr. Ernest Moniz PhD) and is/was a TAE Technologies Board Member; he is also a past colleague of Dr. Nuno Loureiro (killed MIT Professor) and the shooter in Portugal. My guess is the shooter was probably bitter because they became famous scientists and he did not (my analyis on the core motive of the two recent fatal shooting events after going down the research rabbit hole). I encourage you to do your own research in connecting the "dots". Do you believe in this many coincidents? I don't. A lot of Chemistry and Plasma Physics subject information is available on the Internet. I cannot atest to the accuracy of it all because it is out of my field of science knowledge and subject matter experience study/support for the DoD. Others are subject matter experts in Advanced Nuclear Physics programs. Our son was a Submarine Nuclear Reactor Operator for 21 years, and worked later at Los Alamos Labs for over a decade.
Reference [for the curious] about an overview of Aneutronic Fusion Reactor Power Systems development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Boron
Cheers, and Merry Christmas to y'all,
Al
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