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Wombat wrote: This may be a dumb question but that’s never stopped me before…

Will the eventual power output of the finished reactor be continuous, or will it be pulsed?

I’ve never let it stop me, either, Wombat. The power will be produced in pulses and can be used in that form (synchronized to a local motor or to the national grid, for instance) or it can appear constant using a diode and capacitor arrangement like a DC power supply.