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[Tasmodevil44]

Here’s still one more possibility. Don’t know if it would work, either (a chemical analogy of what I’m trying to do is somewhat like pour gasoline onto rain-soaked wood that’s all wet. Or put lighter fluid on stubborn charcoal briquettes). How about adding some He3 to the plasma mix?

But I can already see one problem arising from He3 already. It is very scarce here on planet Earth. That’s why some scientists have proposed the idea of mining the Moon’s lunar soil for it. Over countless millenia, the solar wind from the Sun has deposited quite a lot of it there.

However, He3 may be more probable at getting p+B11 fusion over the “hump” than trying to add any fissionable stuff to it……whether it be thorium, uranium, or anything else that’s fissionable. I even entertained the wacky notion of adding some Americium (like in smoke detectors) to the mix. But Americium is also scarce and may not so-called “burn” to add any more energy either.

When thinking “outside-the- box” with an open mind, I try not to leave a single stone unturned ……no matter how crazy others may think it to be. While most ideas don’t work, you just never know when you might hit upon something that does. Even if 99 out of a hundred don’t work, then the one out of a hundred that does is still well worth it.

I still think the suggestion by transmute to add some heavy hydrogen may be the best bet for adding a little extra “kick” to get p+B11 fusion going. But you would definitely produce some radioactivity when the high energy neutrons slam into the walls and are absorbed. Preferrably, the d+d that uses strictly deutrium might produce less high energy neutrons than the d+t reaction that uses tritium. The tritium has got to sling it’s extra neutron somewhere……like the reactor’s walls.

But then again, like transmute said, these neutrons could also be harnessed to remediate existing stockpiles of the most wicked and nasty legacy of the Cold War and Arms Race.