What Is a Heat Load?

In the space of a couple of meters you're going for more months absolute zero, 10 times hotter than the center of the sun there's no way around the universe with such an intense temperature gradient so I think that really sums up the extreme time of the diffusion reactor. There's also the research into the high temperature superconductors as well which potentially makes reactors a lot smaller. And then any reactor where you've got coolness and things like that corrosion is always a big issue as well. So those are kind of the main material challenges but taking into part all of them and then something all of them together it's really difficult.

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