Reply To: Fusion Oil

[zapkitty]

Lerner wrote: Looking back at old calculations, I think that a person at 1 meter from a generator at the time of a catastrophic break in shielding, leading to a complete release of radioactive methane, would get a lethal radiation dose in only about 6 seconds.

And note that this extreme situation could only take place because of a catastrophic [em]external[/em] force applied to a generator housing. I don’t think the FF unit could supply the required energy in and of itself.

So we’re speaking of some outside force great enough to smash through the outer shell of the housing and then through a meter of lead, boron-10 and water shielding and [em]then[/em] through perhaps half a meter of the “onion” -which itself is composed of many thousands of layers of metal foil- and then through the vacuum chamber itself… and that’s the [em]shortest[/em] path to the core.

Other routes would add obstacles such as massive capacitor banks, the hybrid helium/air or helium/water cooling system and the Rogowski coils for the ion beam energy recovery system.