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Even if it somehow works, photofission will never be energy efficient. You will be spending gigawatt hours per gram of fissioning matter



Why do you say that? The approach I linked can be an absurdly efficient way to generate gamma rays with super-conductor magnets and electron recycling, like the Japanese electron accelerator has. And keep in mind, these atoms are already unstable. The photon just excites the nucleas out of the meta-stable ground state.




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