I am not sure if that is true. I am not up on the specific isotopes that are traditionally considered fuel and waste, but the thing I linked is proposing a specific uranium isotope. The process works best if the fission produces a Tritium nucleus. The main this is that you are getting the bulk of energy out of the fusion, and therefore using less fission material.
OPs article seems to imply that it is getting majority of energy from fusion, the feedback process means that they believe the can ignite it in a pulse that will quickly burn out, but produce more energy than put in. This makes it a lot easier in terms of the traditional hurdle towards fusion, that for the continuous process you need a very dense high pressure plasma, which makes the engineering hard.
Okay but why even start with fusion in the first place. Regular fission makes lots of neutrons. Like there is not a shortage of neutrons.
If you just get enough fissionable material in one place it will make enough neutrons to keep going
It allows one to use other materials for fission. Notably some nuclear waste can be used to make more energy.
I am not sure if that is true. I am not up on the specific isotopes that are traditionally considered fuel and waste, but the thing I linked is proposing a specific uranium isotope. The process works best if the fission produces a Tritium nucleus. The main this is that you are getting the bulk of energy out of the fusion, and therefore using less fission material.
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OPs article seems to imply that it is getting majority of energy from fusion, the feedback process means that they believe the can ignite it in a pulse that will quickly burn out, but produce more energy than put in. This makes it a lot easier in terms of the traditional hurdle towards fusion, that for the continuous process you need a very dense high pressure plasma, which makes the engineering hard.