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I always thought super conducting ccds with plasma scintillating cell intermediaries were the way to go.

Capture the alpha and beta radiation with the plasma scintillators. Plasma being ideal because it wont degrade with bombardment.

Capture the em radiation with ccds.

We normally think of ccds as low power capture devices for cameras. Theres no reason they couldn't be scaled up to handle the power requirements. Perfect use case for super conductors.

This of course for moderate to large scale fusion reactors where cost is a negligible object.

Of course the dream is solid state Hau arrays. Which Dr Lene Hau postulated 15 years ago… but thats a whole other story.




Of course plasma will degrade its just easier to separate out the products. You could feed the plasma back into the reactor and use cyclotron resonance. Alpha and Beta decay being one of the big problems with reactor design as the walls degrade over time. So designing for that with an active system seems to me to be a way a viable solution to minimize maintenance.


Could this cause a resonance cascade?


Unlikely as resonance in this case is referring the minuscule difference in mass between isotopes which results in preferential orbits within a tokamak which can be exploited for separation. I guess depending on what you're separating and whether or not someone is paying attention I guess conceivably a runaway event could occur but I think the masses and densities involved are too small to be of any concern.




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