Fusion reactor explosion.
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Re: Fusion reactor explosion.
Same with the Longknife/Jump Universe fusion reactors, whose plasma also provides thrust for the ships they're on.
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Re: Fusion reactor explosion.
Less just simply reactor design and more of reactor design (as some reactor designs can only hold a certain density of plasma) and plasma density.SpottedKitty wrote: ↑2019-01-27 12:07pm Isn't that a case of very different reactor designs? The ITER-style reactors mentioned upthread use magnetic containment on a low-density plasma. Honorverse reactors (the ones on large capital ships, anyway) use gravitic containment with a much higher energy density — that's partly why they go kaboom in such an impressive way when containment fails.