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by rbanffy 3263 days ago
> neutron containment

Well... If you run a fusion reactor for long enough, you can dismantle it and use the scrap as fuel for much easier to build fission ones. ;-)

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You need a big enough reactor that a particular type of extreme dismantling produces reasonable amounts of fission-fertile radioisotopes; the bright side however is that the bigger such reactors are the less time "long enough" tends to be. And of course there's the time one might have to wait before beginning to mine them from the scrap...