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[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by Roadam

I read the article a while back and the only serious thing left to figure out is how to contain the fuel in the glass bulb whilst not melting it. I guess that electromagnetic is the way to go but for that we need high temperature superconductors with the ability to carry really strong magnetic fields.

I was thinking about acoustic levitation, but then I realised that we have plasma in the core.

But otherwise its a very good article and I actually have that parent site under bookmarks.

I think the glass bulb is cooled by the liquid hydrogen reaction mass. I have tried to pin down the method used to contain the uranium hexafluoride gas, it would seem the best method would be electromagnetic but most sources seem to skip over that like it's a given.