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[NIAC 2023] Fusion Reactor To Melt Through Europa's Ice

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The Technical Challenges and Risks in Moving Forward With This Idea

"We're hoping to deliver a design for a hybrid fusion vision reactor," he says. "All of them come down to the same problem: How do you get through the ice and having gotten through the ice, how do you tell the surface that you did it?" The power supply is probably the primary one; then there's all of the secondary ones like radio frequency absorption in ice.

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