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[Aeronaut]

Lerner wrote: You have to figure that you need to get something like 2 MW heat out of the anode or it will melt, no matter what it made of. Titanium will absorb a lot of x-rays in a very small layer. It will just boil away. You can look up x-ray absorption lengths on NIST’s website. Anything other beryllium will absorb in such a small layer that it will just disappear. With Be, the x-rays mostly pass through or are absorbed in the bulk of the anode, not a thin layer. Yes it requires special conditions to machine it safely but that it possible.

Thanx for the insights and leads, Eric. Think we could do that in PWR fashion by pumping water through a beryllium anode and controlling the steam pressure with the cooling water pressure? I hear PWRs are making a comeback these days :shut:

PD, I was born ready. :coolsmirk: