The beginning of the end of amateur fusion?

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More regulation, great. /s
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It’s frustrating to see our government actually wasting time and money on something like this. Instead of promoting amateur research and STEM, they stifle. It’s no wonder good engineers are so hard to find in here days.

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Going far and wide on this guys.

Are we making fusion energy systems? Ha!

They are talking about million dollar startups now bursting on the scene with whacked out concepts and claims of real energy. Like Helion, and a myriad of others making promises behind 100 million dollar funded machines, etc.

We have nothing to fear as long as only deuterium gas and heavy water are commercially available in the small amounts we require. No one in the big machine biz would dare do the loser D-D fusion route like us in the 500 watt in, 1 microwatt of fusion out system.

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Richard,
I am certain that the new regulations resulting from this directive will not use the generation of energy as a threshold

He used the phrase "byproduct material framework." This means that he cares about any radioactive material made by fusion reactors. As long as that's all they regulate, we should be fine because our fusors have yet to make lingering radioactive material. The tritium we make is not measurable and all activation is only detectable by quickly disappearing isotopes.

If they add restrictions on xray and neutron emissions, then we could be in trouble. We are already obliged to federal and state laws for xray and neutron emissions, but we have pretty much flown under the radar even though some fusors make regulation relevant fields. The difficulty would come from any regulation that requires licensing based on emission alone. It doesn't appear that way from this directive, but never underestimate the capacity of our government to over reach.
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What I’m afraid of is regulations meant to regulate those large scale projects making their way (unintentionally) into the amateur realm…

You can buy a gas stove, but not the gas to burn. Something along those lines.

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