Reply To: p-Li7 fusion

[Rezwan]

jamesr wrote: I’m fully aware of what DPF & ITER are. As Brian said, I was trying to suggest that although some may regard the large scale & expensive tokamak projects as ‘the enemy’, there is a lot of valuable research going on in that field to do with materials properties and the interactions of plasmas with solid interfacing components.

Some of this may be applicable to the plasma/solid boundaries in a DPF. We need to take advantage of all the modelling and experimental results they get.

I should disclose my interest – I have just finished a Masters in nuclear physics, and will be starting a PhD in a few weeks modelling edge turbulence and instabilities in tokamaks and stellarators. Initially using data from the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) at Culham, UK and the Large Helical Device (LHD) in Japan.

Although my research may be from the mainstream side (I needed funding), I hope to be able to apply it different scenarios like focus fusion.

James

Hello! Just split the “earth’s core” debate off of this post. It seems to me like the rest of this is still about electrodes. Although I can take the quote above and start another thread on “My “enemy” is no longer my enemy when I’m taking advantage of their modeling and experimental results” – or “Blasting the boundaries of different experimental approaches: Learning from our esteemed colleagues and the Tokamak”…

Congratulations on your Masters, James!