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zapkitty
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FrankOlson wrote: Any thoughts about what’s to be done with the electron beam??

When the plasmoid reaches FF-level operational density the electron beam isn’t expected to make it out of the plasmoid.

Instead it will expend its energy heating the plasmoid further and increasing the fusion rate .