Reply To: Energy Output – MW & GW

[zapkitty]

Tulse wrote:

In fact anyone can generate neutrons. All you need is electricity.

Yes, but aneutronic fusion does not have some special advantage in radioactive waste transmutation [em]beyond[/em] producing cheap power. There is nothing [em]inherent[/em] in the aneutronic fusion process that makes it a good way to clean up radioactive waste.

While neutronic fusion… tritium and steam and turbines… makes a waste solution [em]possible[/em] it is not a particularly good solution and it integrates the waste problem into the power system.

It’s better than nothing, it’s even better than thorium and if neutronic is all we can get we’ll have to take it.

But if aneutronic fusion is achieved then it becomes the best waste solution hands down. As you say, the pB11 reaction itself can’t do anything about the waste. But as with so many other problems we face a source of really cheap and really safe power makes a better, safer solution not only possible but inevitable.

Just the savings and safety benefits from not having to integrate the waste into the power supply means that aneutronic would win this one hands down. Again 🙂