Robert Lynn wrote:
But the wire cannot be tungsten outside of the reactor where it is exposed to air! It could be exposed to air in the reactor too. One could imagine the leads into the end-caps are Inconel - and the wire coils are tungsten coated with alumina, or else body is two pieces as Bob Higgins suggests, with the tungsten encased and the two pieces are diffusion bonded and with Inconel leads.
