Why do you need a free-surface LM wall? Why not a more traditional channel flow inside solid walls?
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Renaissance Fusion
“Plasma-facing liquids can handle neutrons and energetic charged particles better than solid walls. For instance, they suffer no structural damage by neutrons, because they have no crystal structure.”
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