I don't know why they call it a fission reaction. It's an (n,alpha) reaction. I don't think it will work as the paper describes it and the paper has a cold fusion vibe to it. The Li 6 reaction is an ...
Yes they could be built, but no one is building them because they would be more expensive to build and so be even more uneconomical when run at low capacity factors because they are ramping up and ...