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I've looked at this again and it is a LOT worse than is being presented. This is not the philosopher's stone, this is a Superfund site waiting to happen. What they are creating here is not economically recoverable gold but a flammable toxic sludge that *might* have a few grams of stable gold in it. The proposal is quite simple, it's just using an ongoing D-T fusion reaction, which spits out most of its energy as fast neutrons, to breed gold (Au-197) from mercury-198. This is not the main objective, but a side reaction of a process designed to increase the production of tritium from lithium-6. Neutrons produced by D-T have a high kinetic energy, which is bad for tritium breeding as these tend to pass right through. So the fast neutron hits an atom of Hg-198 instead, which dislodges two neutrons instead of one, i.e. it is a neutron multiplier. Because the mercury atom is heavy, the resulting neutrons are much slower, ("thermal") which greatly aids in their capture by Li-6. Overall this process is designed to manufacture a lot more tritium, which is currently expensive and extremely scarce, being ~250x as valuable as gold. In theory, that's beneficial because it's used as a medical tracer, as a boosting gas in nuclear warheads, and would be essential to a power-generating fusion fuel cycle. The problem is the mercury. More specifically, the lithium amalgam created from it, but even unalloyed mercury is bad enough. Mercury is a poison for most structural alloys as it turns them brittle. Aluminum, copper, nickel, and zinc are particularly susceptible, as are any alloys of titanium or steel that incorporate these metals. This is of concern because the mercury-lithium blanket being used is a molten metal, held under pressure at hundreds of degrees °C right next to a fusing plasma operating at millions of degrees. The ACTIVE NUCLEAR REACTION is belching out ungodly quantities of highly penetrating neutrons which cause another type of metal embrittlement which even affects the kinds of alloys immune to mercury contamination. On top of that, it is mixed with lithium, which is itself highly corrosive and flammable. Aluminum amalgams formed by liquid metal embrittlement are basically thermite. So when it ruptures and explodes, what you get is a RADIOACTIVE METAL FIRE spewing mercury vapor and other contaminants like fluoride, beryllium, and lead into the surrounding area, plus unknown isotopic byproducts of neutron capture which make it high-level nuclear waste. Even under "safe" operation or safer operating configurations, the gold and other residuals that would get continuously filtered out of the Li-Hg blanket would have to be treated like nuclear waste before yielding anything of value. Because that's what it is. It's the precious metal equivalent of a shit sandwich. If this ever rolls out, it's guaranteed to cause an major environmental disaster. The risk of mercury contamination is bad enough. Using industrial quantities of it together with all sorts of radioactive and toxic metals is like Minamata and Chernobyl combined. It would kill fusion power forever.