US firm sets record with plasma fusion temperature of 392 million degrees F for 24 hrs

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/plasma-fusion-record-by-quantum-kinetics


“Quantum Kinetics Corporation’s patented modular reactor surpassed, by order magnitude, previous record KSTAR April 2024 105 million°C for 48 seconds… third party, peer-reviewed experiments with radioactive wastewater… thorium, lead, tungsten, boron, potassium, magnesium, gallium, silicon forming from process… cracked Uranium 234/235/238… can treat stored nuclear wastewater at legacy/ operational nuclear power plants... yields several forms of energy including 0.7KeV – 30KeV X-ray photons”

Comment by Simon Derricutt via email: "Though it's talking about 24 hours, there's a concentration on talking about the first and second minute. Seems like the temperature is estimated from the photon energy of the X-rays produced, and in any case temperature isn't actually defined in this situation so it's pretty meaningless. What would be useful is the combined collision energy in eV. How far is that above the trigger energy for fusion? Thus what proportion of collisions result in fusion? Remediation of nuclear waste is converting it to non-radioactive isotopes. It really ought to deliver a lot of energy in the process because used nuclear fuel still has around 95% of the original energy content. Assuming this is fission fuel, you should end up with non-radioactive Lead if you take the fission process as far as it goes"


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