#7643
Brian H
Participant

Tulse wrote: Slightly off topic, and I’m sure this has been addressed before, but how much helium would a commercial FF unit produce? Would it be enough to be worth collecting and selling, especially given the forecast shortage of helium?

There was a discussion of that somewhere onsite at one point, and Eric weighed in saying it would be worthwhile, I think. But if you consider that the total boron required in a year for a 5MW generator would be around 5 lb., that’s near the upper limit of how much helium you’d get.