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Comment by floxy

4 months ago

>the issue of the reactor core being degraded by the heavy neutron radiation which is produced by the fusion reaction.

There are some reactor designs that use aneutronic fusion, which eliminate this particular issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion

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