• Chef@sh.itjust.works
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      10 months ago

      I defer to your expertise as I only read an article about Lithium fission and know my knowledge is limited.

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        10 months ago

        I somehow deleted my comments when I meant to edit them, but I found the article you were talking about. They’re using Lithium-7 and not Lithium-6 it seems. It sounds like they’re proposing on using a radioisotope like americium from a nuclear reactor as their neutron source, which really won’t create a lot of power and doesn’t seem at all economical to me. Otherwise I really don’t see how they’re getting more power out than they put in with something like a particle accelerator.

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