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pluteski t1_j08eqce wrote

Reply to comment by Robo-Connery in National Ignition Facility (NIF) announces net positive energy fusion experiment by Robo-Connery

I suppose that the gold from the hohlraum is also recovered from the scrape off layer too, then?

I'm just curious whether/how the NIF's inertial containment approach would scale if it was firing one per second (say), 24x7. Not so much because gold is expensive, but rather, would that amount of gold start to muck up the works after a while?

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Robo-Connery OP t1_j08i4zx wrote

Sorry the scrape off layer is a tokamak concept. I am not sure how ICF machines are supposed to handle waste.

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