Neutron safety applications

The Focus Fusion approach to generating energy limits the creation of neutrons.  In fact, we essentially eliminate them.  Just because we avoid neutrons doesn’t mean we think they’re evil.  In fact, there are some cool uses for neutrons.  There is, for example, the neutron bath method being developed by Livermore scientists to scan cargo suspected of carrying fissile material. 

The Trouble with Tritium

27 kg and decaying.

Energy and Security

Energy and security intersect in many different ways.

Conventional Fusion vs. Focus Fusion

Energy production has three main elements:  fuel, reactor and generator (why these three?).  Conventional fusion and focus fusion differ significantly in their approach to these three elements:

• Fuel:  Focus Fusion uses a different fuel, hydrogen and boron, rather than the conventional Deuterium and Tritium. 
• Reactor:  It uses a much smaller, inexpensive, more elegant reactor, the Dense Plasma Focus.  In contrast, conventional approaches to fusion revolve around the tokamak, a large, unwieldy and very expensive device that has consumed billions of dollars in research money and is still very far from achieving net energy. 
• Generator:The Focus Fusion approach seeks to generate electricity directly. The tokamak is designed to generate heat which then has to be converted to electricity using expensive turbines and generators.

Fusion is not Fission

Fission and Fusion are both Nuclear Energy.  When people discuss nuclear power, they are usually referring to nuclear fission. This is because we have many nuclear power plants that use fission, but no one has been able to build a working fusion plant yet.  The biggest practical difference between the two is that fusion reactions don’t have the problem of “chain reactions” and “melt-downs”.