Liquid Lithium to Contain Fusion Reactors

nigelc writes: "ABCNews.com reports on Liquid Metal walls for a fusion reactor, and how it may solve some of the temperature problems. Probably only of scientific interest to most of us, unless you're into some serious overclocking.""

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Mostly of academic interest

[pdqlamb]

Given the current political climate, nobody's going to be building ANY nuclear power plants in the U.S. for years to come. Even if a Li-cooled plant were to prove its superiority over conventional water-cooled plants, nobody's going to build a new reactor design outside the U.S. using unproven American technology until the Americans do it first. It's a combination of NIH and fear. Unless some other government like France or Japan does it, this will be wonderful bookshelf lining research.