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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I somehow deleted my comments when I meant to edit them, but I found the article you were talking about. They're using Lithium-7 and not Lithium-6 it seems. It sounds like they're proposing on using a radioisotope like americium from a nuclear reactor as their neutron source, which really won't create a lot of power and doesn't seem at all economical to me. Otherwise I really don't see how they're getting more power out than they put in with something like a particle accelerator.

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