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beaded_lion59 t1_iywmi7r wrote

Reply to comment by NetworkLlama in Why not use hydrogen and deuterium in fusion reaction rather than tritium and deuterium? by Curious_user4445

Who’s working on Z-pinch fusion now? I did D-D fusion in the 80’s in a Z-pinch, but the process would require a lot of pulse-power advances to make it practical for energy production.

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beaded_lion59 t1_iyxuv6e wrote

I did this at a 7 TW pulsed power system at a company in the Bay Area using deuterium gas. The system could do 3 shots/day. Sandia’s shot rate is probably less. They’re more like NIF at Livermore.

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