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We created Muons and electron showers using a field crushing venturi and pulsed lase....all we want is the Electrons and we separated them.We can collect them at the point they are free of the Muon...
Fusion research is useful and beneficial. Fusion commercial energy research is a terrible fraud that cannot succeed because of the laws of Physics and of Engineering. A well-balanced video. The ad was better than the fusion bit. Remember CARDIE: curtail fossil extraction 2%/month and emission, avoid especially methane; replace and shut down fossil activities; drawdown and increased conservation; energy efficiency improvement 8%/year.
Thank you so much. As a nuclear medicine technologist. I cannot express the importance of isotope production in the world. 177 Lutetium production is very important. Thank you again for this insight.
Too many people are missing the point. Fusion itself is not "10 years away" its been done 1,000s of times already. Fusion that produces net positive energy output is another matter altogether, but this video isnt about that! It doesn't matter whether there's a net energy output if thats not the goal! This video is about a reactor that produces medically useful isotopes in a small enough package it can be deployed in many more locations than is currently practical/economical, so that more patients can have access to life-saving healthcare
Of course, but i imagine that this kind of developments could attract more investment to fusion research, and further accelerate the trend... @UndecidedMF we are already waiting for that extra footage!!
My thoughts exactly on the video. I'm blown away by the size of the device tbh I'm no spring chicken but I never thought about this happening in my lifetime. The advancements in technology, whether it be in engineering or science etc is mind-blowing My kids growing up always asked what they could do for a living. Imagine trying to explain this as your desired career choice. I'll definitely be sharing this with the next generation. Even if they are in early education. It's seriously never too early to start. 😊
@@nomore-constipation This type of stuff is exactly why being an astronaut used to be the most desired career. The discussion on the technical side would go over the head of anyone too young, but the basics and overall ideas (plus the flashy purple lighting, of course) should be enough to enchant anyone, I feel.
Look up the company Helion! they have a Fusion model that is different from everyone else, and I believe when they scale up net positive Fusion energy will become a Reality!
For nuclear medicine this is a HUGE game changer that could move the options available at limited university scale facilities out to roughly any large city. There's also a similar but more limited potential spread for university research moving to smaller less central campuses. 0.2MW is nothing to sneeze at for requirements but it's vastly more bubdgetable than the current standards and requirements in all metrics from area to support, to of course cash.
200kW is still less than 2 teslas charging (at their maximum rate). Sure its a lot of power but we have proof that it is doable just based on the supercharger systems that are already being built.
200kw is not that much for industrial scale.. 3-4kw ~ is awerage home upper limts. 200kw/mounth is awerage home usage total . its not that high from lots of perspectives... and it seems it doesnt need 200kw x more ten one hour it seems. So mostlikely needs total energy less then one house uses a mounth ...
This is really good. I have prostate cancer, and am in a study using Lu 177. Hopefully it can reduce the time and cost of Lu 177, and other isotopes for medicine.
1000 neutrons per second with an order of magnitude improvement being within range. Yeah this technology is far from being viable for practical use - thing is, an order of magnitude doesn't do anything here. To produce one mole of Technetium (6 * 10²³ atoms, or 98 grams) via neutron capture, this device would need to run for 6 * 10^19 seconds - that's 2*10¹² years - our solar system won't even last that long, we're talking cosmic timescales here. For the forseeable (30 years+) future, nuclear reactors and particle accelerators will remain the only viable options.
Fission can happen in small apparatus too-e.g., nuclear bombs, or just the demon core. But doing fission controllably and safely, and extracting energy from it, takes a lot more equipment (and the same will apply to fusion, though more for some techniques than for others). Also, many processes are more efficient at larger sizes, and fission power generation seems like it would be one of those.
Very cool. We've come a long way since Chalk River when I was a kid. Chalk River was a Canadian fission reactor setup that produced some power but was mostly geared toward producing medical isotopes. These were longer half-life isotopes used in things like medical imaging devices, stuff you can transport long distances without having to worry about the entire sample becoming unusable...stuff like the Cesium-137 imaging source that salvagers who had no idea what they had found opened up in Goiania, Brazil. (if you're not familiar with that story and are ok with hearing really fricking grim stories, Kyle Hill has an excellent video on the disaster) I was lucky enough to have a tour of the facility in the late 1990s, back when nuclear reactor staff let people come in, stand on the reactor, and look through the tiny super-thick leaded glass port at the Cherenkov radiation's eerie blue glow. Back when nobody thought there would be a security issue with that. (My parents have since been on another trip in the region and even the highway signs saying where the reactor is have been removed, so...yeah, they want zero interaction with the public now, which sucks because that tour was far and away the highlight of the entire 2 week holiday to Ontario and Quebec. Back then it was producing something like a third of the world's supply of medical isotopes - not sure if that included the short half-life ones or just the more stable stuff used for imaging...not sure they even used the short half-life stuff for anything other than experimental research at places like UBC (where Tom Scott's video on the medical isotope speedway is), but it was shut down in 2018, as it was a facility established in 1944 and most of its major facilities like its reactor were built in the 40s and 50s. So...yeah, when I say we've come a long way since Chalk River, I'm literally referring to the first couple of generations of nuclear technology. I would be shocked if the reactor and all its associated plumbing were not still there - it's been 5 years since the shutdown, but taking apart a nuclear reactor safely is what one calls a long term project.
thyroid cancer survivor.. i had to wait at radiology for 1 hour wile FedEx (yes it went through FedEx) on a special transport to get the radiation they treated my cancer with
I am really envying the people who are smart enough to work on such technology that will actually better people's lives and possibly the entire world. I work in the technical side of healthcare myself, but I feel that my work is more about keeping the 'real doctors' happy and not really aid in the process of helping our patients.
I believe that fusion plasma can be stably confined with a row of superconducting magnetic rings like 45 rpm music records stacked on a long spindle with gaps between them that deploy a high voltage electric field. The spindle can be the ceramic hollow vacuum chamber housing the plasma. The plasma is confined radially by the magnetic field and axially by the electric field which is grounded in the center of the row and made increasingly positive both up and down the row by wires to the rings. The nuclei are repelled to the center. Many electrons escape at the ends but that is advantageous. A straght hour glass shaped magnetic field. The constrictive curvature along a straight axis is the most stable shape I know. The electric ffield is needed to complete the confinement by blocking end losses. Aloha
TAE is using their accelerator technology to treat Stave IV head and neck cancers. Early tests have shown a lot of promise. They're also working on power management systems for electric vehicle mobility and smart electrical storage.
They are smart enough to go for an existing market, medical isotopes. Unlike energy, the price of isotopes from conventional sources will not be dropping in the future, so they don't have to run up a down escalator.
They talk about neutrons a lot in this video. Neutron generators are old tech. All you need is a water-cooled copper target with a thin layer of titanium on the surface. Then ionize Deuterium gas in an ion source, extract an intense D+ beam of 100-200 keV of energy and shoot the ion beam to the target. The target will load by deuterium (titanium will act as a deuterium sponge) and from there on the incoming energetic D+ ions will fuse with the trapped Deuterium atoms on the target, generating a whole bunch of neutrons. So this video really shows nothing new other than mentions medical isotopes without giving any explanation on how they intend to scale it to commercially feasible levels. Feels more like a group of people riding on the fusion hype and recycling a bunch of old kit they had in the back of the garage.
@@etaaramin9361 I don't think the point really is fusion. As you pointed out there are other ways to make neutrons, they're just trying to make one of the most efficient and compact methods to make neutrons. I think that's the big whoopie. Also, they showed some fairly massive buildings and apparatuses in this video, are you saying that your described contraption can do what that huge facility can do? These guys are trying to say that theirs can. We'll see.
@@kindlin My response was about neutron energy levels, which as I said sre determined by what is being fused, not how. Spallation is by several orders of magnitude more efficient than any other neutron source, but requires a gigantic particle accelerator. Using braking radiation is a decent compromise - certainly more efficient than a farnsworth fusor, which is of similar size and power draw.
@@etaaramin9361 *insert non-explanative jargon here* I still don't know what you're even trying to say. I think you're saying this video is physically impossible. And my response is, well they certainly don't think so. You're explanations have not helped me at all, I guess I've not watched quite enough popsci yet to get all of your terms.
Tuesday June.27.2023 12:10 I'm going to be honest just Purify radioactive material and Electroplate to silver a 1000 times and in Case in Thin layer of lead then aluminum. And you have a Battery that will outlast most humans. Why make this SHIT Complicated
I KNEW fusion would have benefits for practically “printing” matter needed for different things! I think at somepoint we will be able to print a lot of materials needed for every day things
The frustrating thing about Solar Battery systems including RoyPow is how hard it is to get even a basic guesstimate on how much the system would cost. They always want to put you in contact with a salesperson which is so old fashioned and frustrating. Yes it's great to have someone who can answer your questions; no it's not great when the person answering your questions has his income tied up in how much you like his answers and how much you buy because of his answers.
Karen’s trying to use a basic guesstimate to get a discount is partly to blame unfortunately. Some people will jump on any chance to use a mistake to pay less money and get really hostile to force it through.
I'd like to know how the two modes of fusion work together. You gave a very skimpy explanation of lattice fusion and gave us no idea of how the two modes synergize. I appreciate your videos for their technical side at least as much as for the economics and applications side of the presentation. This was the most unsatisfying video of yours I've ever seen! Please do tell us how is it that combining the two different modes leads to orders of magnitude greater yield. This was SO unsatisfying I can't begin to tell you.
NASA published lattice confinement fusion results in April 2020 in Physical Review C. See Phys. Rev. C 101, 044610. The NASA paper reports Irradiating a deuterated metal lattice with 2.5-2.9 MeV photons in a setup many times larger then the setup shown in this video. The paper shows a neutron spectrum with peaks around 2.5 and 4 MeV. Has the startup in this video published their neutron spectrum and the radioisotopes they produced??
Electrostatic confinement was invented by Filo Farnsworth in the 1960's, the inventor of the cathode ray tube television system. But ITT bought the patents and buried the technology for 30 years. The original device is called the Farnsworth Fusor. He successfully fused deuterium atoms as determent by the presence of a neutron output on his kitchen tabletop. This technology has so many avenues of potential. Tokamak, look out!
Won't a system this small and cheap also make it possible for bomb-makers to make Pu-239 without needing to build an entire nuclear reactor or rely on industrial-scale enrichment for U-235?
As for tritium production it might be just a side effect to catch escaping neutrons with a lithium blanket. It would be just a minor source of tritium. There are so many fission reactors around which could be used for that and they have far higher neutron outputs. What they sell with this fusion reactor are medical isotopes which are sold by milicurie or in other words just there radioactivity because no chance you can put them on a scale. Judging by how inefficient fusors work it's unlikely they even produce a gramm of tritium in a year.
It can produce tritium! The Dept. of Energy and those agency of other nation will be so interested. It is a rare resource that they must replenish in every fusion bomb in existence as it has a half-year of 12 years.
My supervisor at university destroyed an autoclave by removing the bolts in the wrong order so I definitely understand numbering them on that gasket XD
I understand the scepticism, but I’ve seen this personally. It’s more a matter of scaling and commercializing what is now in a lab. Astral has this experience from an ancillary technology so they can get there, just need some strategic and financial help.
@@rmileskiWe've all been hearing that since the 90s. It's been 10 years away, for 39 years. It's been "10 years away" since "recent breakthrough in glassmaking and camera lens technologies have made it possible for cameras to potentially, some day, be small enough to fit inside a handheld phone!" ~ Wired Magazine, circa 2006-2007 I think anyone who's over the age of 35 and has been hearing this their entire life time, believes that if anything was going to happen with this technology, it was going to happen by now. I'm personally, fully resolved to the belief that it's possible, sometime maybe in the next 100 - 200 years.
Is there a reason, why their workspace looks so cramped ? He had like 4 "complex sciencific test stations" in a 1m² room where Harry Potter spend his childhood.
Great video as always. Love learning technologies. I don't know if you saw, but Enphase and SolarEdge are both releasing a Bi-Directional EV charger for 2024. I'm putting in a large GEO/Solar installation this summe for our family farm and huge old house, we will integrate my car / hopefully my Cybertruck to be our backup power system for our house. Eliminates a Generac or $20,000 worth of backup batteries for us in the future. VERY Excited! Thanks for another interesting and intellectual video.
@@UndecidedMFand stop saying we don't have enough tritium or deuterium, the classified DARPA boyz know that is a LIE. The nazi nerds 🤓 figured out how to manufacture both on demand 100 years ago
Considering Tritium's cost, and its projected uses, finding ways to just make Tritium would be financially advantageous. Tritium's current cost per gram is $30k.
Follow up videos on Astral would be interesting. Maybe including your preparation to get up to speed & more details on potential applications. Fusion energy power plants are interesting but commercial deployment in the 21st century is unlikely barring some miracle.
I'm slapping my forehead. The combination of a Farnsworth fusor and lattice confinement fusion is obvious in retrospect but I never would have thought of it. It's so simple and obvious and brilliant. And I feel moronic knowing I didn't think of it and never would have.
At least you have the knowledge to source some great ideas. I wonder if AI could be programed to simulate and research, at least virtually, the possibile useful connections between different scientific discoveries. It seems we know a lot but the real progress comes when someone thinks outside the box
Ur kidding..... Cold fusion (lattice confinement fusion via paladium strata) has always had this as the goal for net excess energy generation.... But its been laughed at till NASA up and claimed repeatable results without publishing how they did it.
@setii2009able I suspect the answer is yes. In my own experience, good ideas are when you notice that one idea is missing the one thing that a second idea is best at. The "out of the box" part of that equation is allowing that cross-pollination regardless how desperate the origins of the two (or more) ideas. Part of the process is mentally representing the positives and negatives of ideas. Well, AIs already have kilo-dimensional space to represent ideas and hallucination on command. Seems perfect. What's needed is some method of removing good from bad.
I know it’s complex stuff, but this video was very muddled. I’d like to see you take another crack at getting this to your typically high level of clarity. I feel like I owe you a more specific critique: There were a lot of clips of the interviewees running through comparative lists of numbers without much context or explanation of what exactly they were talking about. The significance of the information was very difficult to parse. As a longtime writing teacher, it reminded me of student papers that pack in a lot of citations they know are important but don’t connect them into a single presentation. I don’t mean to nitpick or be condescending. I really would like to understand this technology better, and this video didn’t bring it across as well as your other videos from your UK nuclear tour. Thanks for all the work you do bringing these and other innovations to us online!
Really appreciate the constructive feedback. This was a tough one. In earlier versions of the script we went into much more detail on the tech, but it felt too heavy. I was worried about keeping it accessible to a wider audience.
@@UndecidedMF Not sure what is the script you refer to, but if it is readable, could it just be provided as a link? I would be happy to read a heavy description of this. Thanks for providing this information, I had never heard of this approach.
Can we please retire that foolish phrase "...the power of the Sun" with regard to fusion power? The major reaction powering the Sun is proton-proton fusion, a very slooow process at solar core temperatures, which is why the Sun burns slowly for billions of years instead of exploding. Fusion reactors and hydrogen bombs aren't doing any proton-proton fusion at all, they're doing mostly deuterium-tritium fusion, a much faster easier process, which is why reactors can work at Earth-safe temperatures and why hydrogen bombs DO explode. "The power of the Sun" is about a large lightbulb's worth of power per cubic meter.
Amazing video! Simple as that. Thank you for the info. Glad that this can be used to treat Cancer... and how it could make it cheaper and more efficient.
I hate to be a wet blanket, but I'm pretty doubtful about this one, particularly with respect to energy production. On their website they write they can "confidently produce greater than 1 trillion DT fusions per second within a commercial architecture." I'm guessing this is hypothetical because in the video they only talk about supplying the D (deuterium) and not the T (tritium). Also, I didn't see any facilities for handling the radioactive tritium their vacuum pumps would be removing from the chamber. There would also have to be a lot of neutron shielding around this to keep people safe from this neutron flux. In any case, even if they were producing 1 trillion DT fusions per second, this would only produce 2.8 Watts of output power. Then you'd have to convert that to electricity at about a 35% efficiency, or about 1 Watt of electricity. (10^12 fusions/second * 17.5 *10^6 electron-Volts/fusion * 1.6*10^-19Watt-seconds/electron-Volt = 2.8 Watts) In the video when Dr. Mahmoud Bakr Arby was running the experiment at "higher power" he said that it was producing about ten to the fourth (10,000) neutrons per second, which would give off 7 nano-Watts (DD fusion reactions give off about 1/4 of the energy of DT fusion reactions.) I'm not an expert on medical isotope production, but I'm guessing they will need many orders of magnitude more neutrons to produce useful levels of isotopes. Maybe if they switch to DT it may get them there since the DT fusion rate is much higher than DD.
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IANA nuclear physicist, so this is probably all gibberish, but anyway: Is there a possibility of three-tier fusion: IEC + LCF + intra-nuclear confinement? The last one would be if you could induce four proton captures by (heavy) nuclei of atoms of the metal lattice, followed by s-orbital electron captures (half as many), producing transmuted elements which would emit one alpha particle to return into stable isotope of starting element. So, indirectly, the lattice would catalyze fusion of four hydrogen atoms into one helium atom.
There is a VERY important lacuna in the presentation here: in terms of consumption of radioisotopes,(as you mention) Tc99m by far makes up the largest demand. This IS NOT delivered straight from an accelerator. Molybdenum 99m, the parent isotope, provides this upon demand and has a very long half-life compared to the 6hrs of the moly. We produce large quantities every night at my company just by drawing the tech off (chemically) from the moly extraction columns, and deliver it in the overnight to much of Ontario. It is a very to point out that it is NOT necessary to be close to an accelerator centre to use many important radioisotopes. (Our I-131 product arrives from South Africa regularly!) We DO also produce produce short lived PET-relevant isotopes (by our IBA technology cyclotrons, seen in your video) etc., but your video fails to distinguish the significant differences in the clinical needs of the various radioemitter types. I know you are focused on the multistate process description and only have so much screen time, but one must understand the current needs and resources to then understand any advantage of the approach presented here. As for the gamma driven fusion processes described by this company, it is just another in a long list of low efficiency nuclear conversion techniques ( as you hint, paralleling better nuclear fission methods) for making isotopes. It is very far from demonstrating any useful potential as some net-gain room temperature system and will likely remain an interesting nuclear diagnostic tool. There seems to be a lot of potential venture capital money at play here, so don't be sucked in by very grandiose and vague application claims. respectfully yours, DKB
Hi Matt i would love to see an video on your thoughts on the ICNAA climate interventions conference "Scientists researching cloud brightening in bid to cool Great Barrier Reef" .best regards Ty☺🙏✨
Isn't LCF just the Fleischman-Pons experiment but with higher loading than what was done in the confirmation trails, but similar to what Fleischman and Pons did?
Check also Franklin Home Power Batteries , from 13 to 200Kw of Reserves. Great report , this is promising tech . On Energy generation w/Fusion, the type of fuel matters , in some cases the reserves are so small on earth it’s a non starter, how electricity is generated is another.
The way we are going through helium, Farnsworth-Hirche electrostatic fusors may be profitable to create Helium 3 and 4 for industrial Helium needs.... unless we mine it on the moon.
My problem is with how long are we all willing to delude ourselves into believing that any improvement will actually be implemented? Corporations like SHELL have stated that they will not use or invest in technologies that dont gurantee an 8-12% return on investment, when considering how cheap solar driven technologies have become then the margin of profit disappears too much for them to consider implementing, so if fusion will set us free then im convinced it wont be utilised because theres no "gate" for someone to extort us so we can get access, couple that with the "councils" that are just lobbyists in disguise i cant see it freeing us from a future of extortion and explotation, my personal opinion on the matter. But if we want to kick corporates arse back into line then we will need cheap open source technologies to finally compete against the monopolies.. and there are a lot of people working on projects to do so.
I hope you have kids, combining your incessant never ending curiosity of so many things. Just think about sharing that inquisitiveness with the un-saturable curiosity of a child.
If you were at Culham on Tritium there's h3at and the UK tritiated waste inventory, there's limited available tritium in ready to use stocks, but a huge amounts of unprocessed tritiated wastes that h3at is designed to extract and recover. If you processed it all you are in the tonnes range, it'd just currently despite a high notional price the demand for tritium isn't there.
So, you need not much power output but rather neutrons and small zero power fission reactors have been around for decades. Basically they are doing something with fusion which can be done with fission.
Real engineering did a video on a Fusion company called Helion with a novel fusion design. Until i watched that video i thought Fusion might not happen in my lifetime... but that video changed my mind.
Every time this channel trumpets something as a breakthrough, you can pretty much take to to the bank that it's some overhyped failed fad that will never amount to anything. Every time. 3:05
If it doesn’t turn a profit in some way it won’t be mass produced to benefit anyone. Energy is a big industry. We could have changed over a long time ago to alternative clean sources of energy but if there’s not a way to monetize it to give greater returns than the current system is now getting it will never be worth the while for the powers that be to explore. I think deep down inside we all know this.
