The Focus Fusion Society Forums Focus Fusion Cafe Least neutronic fusion chemistry so far? Reply To: Repowering the electric utility industry

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Joeviocoe
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BSFusion wrote:
No, the accronym BSF stands for Bubble-confined Sonoluminescent-laser Fusion, as spelled out in patent appl#: 12/803901, not Bubble SonoFusion. The concepts overlap, but there are major differences. If I changed the name to Matter-confined Laser Fusion (MLF) would that eliminate your objection?

I will address this on your thread. So we can get off his.
https://focusfusion.org/index.php/forums/viewthread/378/

opensource wrote: Using water and lead shielding will make applications in transportation more difficult. Lerner said the main reaction does not produce any, so do we have a list of the (side) reactions that are producing the neutrons?

11B + α → 14N + n + 157 keV
and
11B + p → 11C + n − 2.8 MeV

Are the two neutron producing side reactions that I am aware of. The first one is by far the most prominent. The second one should produce a neutron with very very low energy.

Thanks James for the clarification. Mobile operations will indeed be difficult if heavy gamma shielding is needed. But submarines and ships can handle it since they already deal with heavy shielding for their fission reactors.