Nucleosynthesis in the 22nd century

[wjfox]

Fascinating ideas.

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[funkervogt]

Nucleosynthesis would reduce the need for asteroid mining. It would also be the ultimate recycling technology: dump trash into a fusion reactor and see it pulverized at the atomic level.

[wjfox]

It would also be the ultimate recycling technology: dump trash into a fusion reactor and see it pulverized at the atomic level.

[funkervogt]

There's also this:

A fusion torch is a technique for utilizing the high-temperature plasma of a fusion reactor to break apart other materials (especially waste materials) and convert them into a few reusable and saleable elements. It was invented in 1968 by Bernard J. Eastlund and William C. Gough while they were program managers of the controlled thermonuclear research program of the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). The basic concept was to impinge the plasma leaking from fusion reactors onto solids or liquids, vaporizing, dissociating and ionizing the materials, then separating the resulting elements into separate bins for collection. Other applications of fusion plasmas such as generation of UV and optical light, and generation of hydrogen fuel, were also described in their associated 1969 paper.

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

[Doozer]

Can anyone explain what nucleosynthesis is?