<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><i>because it produces no neutrons and no radioactive isotopes</i></span><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:large"><i><br></i></span></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">Very reduced neutrons, but there are still small side reactions that produce neutrons. About .2% of the total energy is fast neutrons. .2% of 100 megawatts is still 200 kw of neutrons, enough to be a hazard and to produce radioactive waste by neutron activation. Much less, but not zero.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4">But any proton-boron reactor can easily burn deuterium, yielding a large fraction in fast neutrons. And cheap neutrons are a proliferation hazard...even a small fusion reactor can breed lots of plutonium, and make lots of bombs.</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 10:43 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default">
<p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Tri Alpha Energy is about the most secretive publicity shy company around, they have 150 employees 140 million in the bank and no website; they've been around since 1998 but until recently all they've said it that they're trying to develop fusion power using the Hydrogen-Boron reaction which is one of the cleanest nuclear reaction known because it produces no neutrons and no radioactive isotopes. Also the reaction produces fast electrically charged particles so it can produce electricity directly, bypassing the need for steam turbines and generators. Boron and Hydrogen are very common elements too.</font></p>
<p><font size="4"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Recently the company has opened up a bit and published papers showing that they have made real progress, they've confined plasma in field-reversed configuration (a sort of plasma smoke ring) at 10 million degrees Celsius and held it steady for 5 milliseconds, which is over 10 times longer than anybody has before. But there is still a long way to go. </font></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/08/secretive-fusion-company-makes-reactor-breakthrough" target="_blank">http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/08/secretive-fusion-company-makes-reactor-breakthrough</a></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><a href="http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/06/mystery-company-blazes-trail-fusion-energy" target="_blank">http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2015/06/mystery-company-blazes-trail-fusion-energy</a></font></p><p style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> <font size="4">John K Clark</font></p></div></div>
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