[Meta] [RFC] Fenspace 2022, take 2

[Ace Dreamer]

Can you maybe move the hardtech fusion a little bit further away? Would be nice if the whole effort to get the Whole Fenspace Catalogs Fusion Reactors by JAXA would not just be effortlessly beaten by reverse engineering a handwaved reactor without Handwavium.

A few years later (2018-2020), they might even be able to license/buy the design.

The only hardtech Fusion facility on Earth is the Meyrin Fusion Powerplant near C.E.R.N. which was a gift from the Fen (the Banzai Institute extracted the plans, Clark Universal Construction built it, the Browncoats supply the Helium-3) in 2014 (see here). It means the particle acccelerators can run all year and the spare energy can be used by Switzerland or France. This probably inspired JAXA.

The reason they have not become more widespread is that the only source of Helium-3 in any reasonable amount is the Fen, and some don't like having to rely on a single source. I.T.E.R. is focusing on Deuterium reactors, although a hybrid Helium-3 catalised/Deuterium reactor has been proposed.

ITER are also proposing 'breeding' tritium from neutrons and a lithium jacket around the fusion chamber.  Deuterium and lithium are readily obtainable, if they can make their own tritium so they don't rely on imported helium-3, doesn't the whole economics of it change?
http://www.iter.org/sci/fusionfuels
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