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[Article] Marathon Fusion says it can produce gold as fusion reactor byproduct (newatlas.com)
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The dream of the ancient alchemists may come true as Marathon Fusion announces that its tokamak fusion reactor technology can turn common mercury into gold as a byproduct of fusion operations in quantities that would make Auric Goldfinger blush.

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[–] 11 points 1 year ago

This article is based on a preprint paper that hasn't been peer reviewed yet.

Mercury vapor would be really bad to have in a fusion plasma. It would drastically increase energy loss and would make maintaining the plasma difficult.

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