The Focus Fusion Society Forums Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) Science and Applications Miniaturizing Focus Fusion Reply To: A Big Prick in the Balloon of the Big Bang

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The_Programer
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I wasn’t thinking of airplanes in particular, there is a thread elsewhere for that, but more general applications like cars, ships, trains, dirigibles, etc. I was looking at the wikipedia page on the Toyota Prius (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prius) and noticed that the total power in KW is ~100, 100KW happens to be 2% of 5MW, and was wondering if Focus Fusion would scale down that far and what the radiation levels would be at that size. I’m thinking about Issac Asimov’s Foundation series and how they had nuclear reactors the size of a walnut and used nuclear power for everything (they had personal shields that where nuclear powered).