Reply To: Where are Japan and China in funding Focus?

[Joseph Chikva]

Tulse wrote: These folks seem very light on details — their website is a paragon of vagueness.

And again, this is all just to create neutrons to create heat to boil water to turn a turbine to turn a generator. (And presumably produce long-term radioactive equipment in the process.)

First of all that is impractical. Energetic balance will be negative in any case.
500-600MeV protons hit as Iknow beryllium target.
I did not hear any other way for producing pi-mesons.
Rest mass of pi-meson (pion) 140MeV
Then they decay into muons (rest mass about 100MeV).
They need really 5000MeV for creation of each muon.

Concerning your anxiety on a residual radioactivity, today we aren’t able to gain net power even from deuterium-tritium fuel.
Yes, that reaction will produce some short life wastes. Much shorter than from fission reactors.

And very early to speak about aneutronic fuels.

Let’s move step by step.

But returning to muon catalyzed fusion, I am sure that it is dead-born idea.