{"id":110152,"date":"2020-07-18T21:50:57","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T04:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-cheaper-faster-way-to-nuclear-fusion"},"modified":"2020-07-18T21:50:57","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T04:50:57","slug":"a-cheaper-faster-way-to-nuclear-fusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/a-cheaper-faster-way-to-nuclear-fusion","title":{"rendered":"A cheaper, faster way to nuclear fusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-cheaper-faster-way-to-nuclear-fusion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This is the third in a series. Read part 1 <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2020\/07\/focus-fusion-is-the-hottest-idea-in-nuclear-energy\/\">here<\/a> and part 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2020\/07\/nuclear-fusion-the-easy-way\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the most notable features of Eric Lerner\u2019s approach to fusion using the Dense Plasma Focus (DPF), presented in <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2020\/07\/focus-fusion-is-the-hottest-idea-in-nuclear-energy\/\">Part 1<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2020\/07\/nuclear-fusion-the-easy-way\/\">Part 2<\/a> of this series, lies in the possibility of using hydrogen and boron as a fuel. This property is shared by the hydrogen-boron laser fusion reactor, which I discussed in a previous series of <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2020\/05\/meet-the-father-of-the-hydrogen-boron-laser-fusion-reactor\/\">articles<\/a> in Asia Times.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, the fusion reaction between nuclei of hydrogen and boron is aneutronic: no neutrons are produced, but only charged alpha particles. This gives the DPF enormous potential advantages over the mainline fusion technologies, which are all designed to employ a mixture of the hydrogen isotopes deuterium (D) and tritium (T) as their fuel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third in a series. Read part 1 here and part 2 here. One of the most notable features of Eric Lerner\u2019s approach to fusion using the Dense Plasma Focus (DPF), presented in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, lies in the possibility of using hydrogen and boron as a fuel. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[873,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}