"HRogge Wrote:Can you maybe move the hardtech fusion a little bit further away? Would be nice if the whole effort to get the Whole Fenspace Catalogs Fusion Reactors by JAXA would not just be effortlessly beaten by reverse engineering a handwaved reactor without Handwavium.The only hardtech Fusion facility on Earth is the Meyrin Fusion Powerplant near C.E.R.N. which was a gift from the Fen (the Banzai Institute extracted the plans, Clark Universal Construction built it, the Browncoats supply the Helium-3) in 2014 (see http://www.fenspace.net/index.php5?titl ... Curve_2014]here). It means the particle acccelerators can run all year and the spare energy can be used by Switzerland or France. This probably inspired JAXA.
A few years later (2018-2020), they might even be able to license/buy the design.
The reason they have not become more widespread is that the only source of Helium-3 in any reasonable amount is the Fen, and some don't like having to rely on a single source. I.T.E.R. is focusing on Deuterium reactors, although a hybrid Helium-3 catalised/Deuterium reactor has been proposed.