I had to read this for a while. It came up the next day after I said we need to wait for some new physics. And here it is, ready to put electricity on the grid in a year. 600 million neutrons. Is that a lot? Can they fit in my shot glass? I don't know.
This is a pulse compression system. I've said I can't see this running in a commercial reactor. The vibrations are too much. You need a nice continuous process. I would be surprised if this generated more than 1 Watt of power. We have to scale up to 1000 MW.
And I wonder about those neutrons. Remember the neutron bomb? You'd have to put heavy water around this, and try to warm it up with neutron slowing.
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