Going Nuclear
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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How to Produce Direct Energy From Fusion Reactors
Swadesh mahagon is working on solving one of the problems that bills just raised. To work in hybrid actor, you'd need a fusion reactor that's about five times more powerful than the ones we currently have. And what limits the power of fusion reactors at the moment is how to make an exhaust system that can cope with the extreme superheated gases that need to be vented from the reaction process. But researches at the institute for fusion studies at the university of texas and austian have come up with a new way of handling the exhaust. Their calling it the superex diverte.
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