You’ve seen the movie, now design the bracelet

This animation by Torulf Greek envisions pB11 aneutronic fusion as a black sphere(a proton) whacking into a clump of white and black spheres(boron).  Watching an animation is great, but passive.  How can we turn this into a physical experience?  Jewelry to the rescue!  Meditate on aneutronic fusion with a fusion rosary.

Thanks to Dan619 for telling us about this: “Understanding the ¹¹B(p,a)aa reaction at the 0.675 MeV resonance”, S. Stave et al, Physics letters B, December 2010.  (pdf file)

Murali and Alex discuss the effects of decaborane on the vacuum system.

LPPX is starting to plan for the modification of the chamber to use the decaborane gas.  For this purpose, the chamber has to be heated and has to be maintained at 100-120oC to keep the decaborane gas from condensing.  A separate chamber is needed to store the solid decaborane.  Several other design modifications are required such as protection of the pumping system against fouling by boron particles.

Below is an email string that addresses issues related to decaborane handling.

Nuclear fusion has the potential to generate power without the radioactive waste of nuclear fission, but that depends on which atoms you decide to fuse.  Conventional fusion approaches work with deuterium and tritium (DT), while focus fusion works with hydrogen and boron eleven (pB¹¹).

$200 Million per kg.
27 kg and decaying.

“Focus Fusion” refers to electricity generation using a Dense Plasma Focus (DPF)  nuclear fusion generator with hydrogen-boron fuel (pB¹¹).

pB¹¹ & DPF