Reply To: NIMBY FUD

[zapkitty]

asymmetric_implosion wrote: A Q>1 PF could be filled with D2 or DT and produce a large burst of neutrons coupled with a 200 Hz drive.

… and what happens to the DPF structure in that 200 Hz neutronic environment?

There were earnest questions asked in the forums about the possible effects on the DPF structure from the occasional neutron produced by aneutronic reactions.

So if there were structural worries about aneutronic reactions, where the neutrons carry only .2% of the total reaction energy, then how much more so with neutronic reactions where the neutrons carry 400 times that?

And of course there’s the little problem of the DPF core melting long before you get to that level to begin with…