Hydrogen Boron Fusion with lasers

[Vertigo]

I stumbled on this interesting article. Hydrogen Boron fusion is something I've not heard of before: https://phys.org/news/2017-12-laser-driven-technique-fusion.html

Hydrogen-boron fusion produces no neutrons and, therefore, no radioactivity in its primary reaction. And unlike most other sources of power production - like coal, gas and nuclear, which rely on heating liquids like water to drive turbines - the energy generated by hydrogen-boron fusion converts directly into electricity. But the downside has always been that this needs much higher temperatures and densities - almost 3 billion degrees Celsius, or 200 times hotter than the core of the Sun.

 

[Mirannan]

I stumbled on this interesting article. Hydrogen Boron fusion is something I've not heard of before: https://phys.org/news/2017-12-laser-driven-technique-fusion.html

Interesting. Hydrogen/boron fusion is also being attempted by another route:

DPF Fusion

 

[Vertigo]

Interesting. Hydrogen/boron fusion is also being attempted by another route:

DPF Fusion

That's interesting, particularly in that both approaches state one of the benefits as low neutron emission; so much less radiation risk and, I guess, therefore much less shielding needed.