wouldnt highly energetic protons flying about the place be just as dangerous as neutrons?
my understaning is neutrons shooting around at high speed knocking shit off other atomic nuclei was the source of the problem, but shouldnt protons, being also fairly massive and moving at high speed make pretty much the same result?
Danm, I should not type while not stoned....can't think.
Proton = Positive Charge
Ejected, high energy protons, are not out of control. They can be directed, magnetically. And protons are useful, for fusing Boron. Here is the latest thing I could find. ( But, we are far from fusion, so may as well frack for Ngas.)
Proton-boron fusion uses one laser to create a
boron-11 plasma and another to create a stream of
protons that smash into the plasma, producing slow-moving
helium particles but no
neutrons. The laser-generated proton beam produces a tenfold increase of boron fusion because protons and boron nuclei collide directly. Earlier methods used a solid boron target, "protected" by its
electrons, which reduced the fusion rate. Scaled-up versions... expected to require substantially less energy input to create and sustain the reaction.[SUP]
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