Reply To: minimal size device for focus fusion to work?

[zapkitty]

vansig wrote: also, at 5 pinches/second, anode life would be 66 times longer than it is at 330 pinches/s.
a 90-day maintenance schedule would be extended to 16 years

All that remains is handling the fuel.

If it’s still decaborane then there will be contamination control issues. Not the
NIMBY FUD discussed elsewhere but the simple fact that the ISS ecosystem
extends exactly just as far as the air revitalizer in the next module over from
yours. Contamination by any neurotoxin, however minute the traces, can not
and will not be allowed.

If the reactor can be refueled by a cartridge that is isolated from the module
air system and offers no chance of blowback either when changing cartridges
or in case of cartridge failure… that would be a big help.

A cartridge that sits in the vacuum side of the system and can be inserted
through an external hatch in the module without ever being brought into a
hab… that would go over well despite the extra expense involved…