That is fine if you are only focusing on tritium. A leak of which is still dangerous but lesser than fission materials. However if it is produced on site, there are different ways of doing this, some more dangerous than others.
Also it depends on how you quantify a material as "dangerous"...
I have seen studies that quote 1 and 2 kg as the Tritium requirements of reactors also. Now, I did not say this was an insignificant amount of radioactive material, I said very little tritium is needed for fusion reactions. I was considering the discussion of fission and fusion and thinking of...
Well, the LHC is not a fusion plant, its operation and the equation of its superconductors to a fusion plant's ones is not direct. Fortunately no one was injured/killed, because no one was in the vicinity. The devastating part from the LHC point of view would be the large amount of liquid...
I am referring to the energy levels used for confinement. The plasma is in very small quantities. The energy in the magnets is huge, and this is a complicated systems with lots of lovely stuff in it, including cryogenics. The material is not just made radioactive and can be disposed of. The...
Assuming you are talking about a plasma magnetic confinement system.
If you are comparing the reactive elements used to a fission reaction then the fusion elements are safer. This does not mean they are safe.
The surrounding materials will become radioactive over time as you say and there is...
"energy would be released as heat into the surrounding equipment"
Yes and we are talking about a massive amount of heat, I certainly would not want to be anywhere near it.
Your problem with recovering the particles is that they are past the collision site and heading away from it. This means you would have to slow them down then accelerate them back the way they came.
I will look for it thanks, if you happen to have a link that would be appreciated.
I followed the work on creating ultradense deuterium by forming a metallic deuterium lattice, the density is rather increadable.
I could not work out how this could be achieved with tritium, but wondered if...
Does anyone have any figures for the density of liquid or solid tritium?
How does this compare to Ultra-dense tritium?
Ah, and are there any proper publications on this?
I am not sure what you mean by recover the particles.
It may take more energy to do this than to let them hit a thermal blanket and get some heat recovery, and then accelerate new particles.
The energy in the super conductive magnets in a tokamak (one which is big enough to potentially break even) is approximately 1/40 that of the first atomic bomb dropped in anger.
If that energy is releases it goes somewhere. Possibly helping to spread the lithium blanket which surrounds the...
The answers on the definition of a vacuum and a perfect vacuum tell you about atoms existing in a vacuum. Electromagnetic radiation can pass though a vacuum, otherwise as soon as a wave encountered a volume of perfect vacuum, what would happen to it?
Given the low density of atoms in space...
Does anyone know figures for Diffusivity (diffusion coefficients) for two gases at different temperatures.
Such as air - Hydrogen or air-methane.
For example the diffusivity of hydrogen into air when the hydrogen is at 300C and the air at 100C.
Please don't point me to Fick's laws...