Reply To: EmDrive + Focus Fusion = Space Access for all?

[Tasmodevil44]

Here’s another alternative possibility that might work better. Instead of direct injection of waste into the fusion reactor itself, the electric power output from the fusion reactor could be used to power some sort of X – ray or gamma source external to the fusion powerplant. One method is to accelerate a beam of electrons until they stike a target. Still yet another way to generate rays energetic enough to convert isotopes may be to have the energetic alpha particles from the fusion reaction strike a target instead. Some FF reactors could be specifically designed to generate X – rays instead of electric power with the alpha emission they produce. I’m curious about how much nuclear waste a single FF device could destroy in a given amount of time. It probably would not take very many FF converters to destroy all of the thousands of tons that have been produced so far.