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- Fri Aug 17, 2012 12:59 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Thorium Fuel Cycle Using Fusion Neutron Source
- Replies: 16
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Seems smarter to use the excess plutonium laying around and just use the neutron source for the small deficit due to excess minor actinides. IIRC the lead in time to create enough U233 would be decades. ICBW I suppose it all depends on the rate at which the polywell machines being employed can prod...
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 8:50 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Thorium Fuel Cycle Using Fusion Neutron Source
- Replies: 16
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Near wall issues? The neutron flux will irradiate the polywell device. Certainly. Just as the neutron flux while enriching uranium will irradiate the centrifuges, the factory equipment, the mining trucks, the ore crushers, etc. And leaves around tons and tons of mine tailings and depleted uranium. ...
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 7:49 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Thorium Fuel Cycle Using Fusion Neutron Source
- Replies: 16
- Views: 30213
You would still need an initial load of fissile material. All the neutron source will do is make up for some neutron economy deficiencies. This may allow a high converter to become a break even breeder. This might also allow using SNF with a high TRU, but there still needs to be a full fissile load...
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 3:45 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Thorium Fuel Cycle Using Fusion Neutron Source
- Replies: 16
- Views: 30213
Re: Thorium Fuel Cycle Using Fusion Neutron Source
Anyway, I'd never considered the idea of using a polywell simply as a neutron source leading to net power from a fission reaction. Interesting idea. I had also never before considered the idea that the polywell might present weapons proliferation issues. However it occurs to me that the bad guys co...
- Thu Aug 16, 2012 1:15 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Thorium Fuel Cycle Using Fusion Neutron Source
- Replies: 16
- Views: 30213
Thorium Fuel Cycle Using Fusion Neutron Source
in late May 2012, Magdi Ragheb from the University of Illinois presented at the Thorium Energy Alliance Conference 4 . He discussed his work on using electrostatic & electrodynamic neutron generators to operate or kick start LFTR style thorium reactors. As a neutron source, the polywell can either b...
- Sun Jul 29, 2012 6:20 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: BELLA laser achieves world record power at 1 petawat per sec
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2618
It was a pentawatt pulse that lasted 40 femtoseconds. Highest power output on record and can fire once/second. That'll leave a mark... Might also be useful for fusion development: http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/07/fusion-energy-without-radioactivity.html http://nextbigfuture.com/2011/06/laser-enable...
- Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:00 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: A particle so evil it's very existence threatens mankind!
- Replies: 31
- Views: 34937
It's a long running joke. It started when people began noticing how much trouble the LHC was having getting up to speed. People suggested that perhaps we just weren't meant to find the Higgs. "A pair of otherwise distinguished physicists have suggested that the hypothesized Higgs boson, which physi...
And honestly, I don't owe anyone the same tired explanations of how these sorts of objections fail miserably. They're just grade school errors anyone of intelligence ought to be able to see through. Not worth any more of my time. When has it ever been explained to me why there is some 'miserable fa...
- Tue May 22, 2012 8:47 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Nuclear regulatory chief Jaczko resigns
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8049
There was an unsurprising surprising lack of information in that article. It will definitely be "interesting" to see what falls out of all of it, however. It seem to me the current administration is now starting to support natural gas as the next new solution to our energy problem. After the tarif ...
- Mon May 21, 2012 3:30 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Nuclear regulatory chief Jaczko resigns
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8049
Nuclear regulatory chief Jaczko resigns
Things are afoot at the NRC:
http://news.yahoo.com/nuclear-regulator ... 54586.html
http://news.yahoo.com/nuclear-regulator ... 54586.html
- Fri Apr 06, 2012 10:51 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Any polywell news?
- Replies: 59
- Views: 80083
The DeLorean Motor Corporation world headquarters is in Humble, Texas (North Houston suburbs). I drive past it every day. They just announced production of an electric-ified DeLorean in the last couple of months. THAT would be cool to own! I only want a DeLorean if it is powered by a flux capacitor...
- Wed Mar 21, 2012 1:49 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: reddit: We are nuclear fusion researchers, ask us anything
- Replies: 553
- Views: 153498
In case you did not catch it, "Trapping" equals "Confinement" and Wiffleball effect. To get Wiffleball, one must hit B=1. wait, Wiffleball effect was proven? when did this happen, why doesnt the whole world know and what's the remaining problems? shouldnt they have a demo now? They do have a demo a...
- Tue Mar 13, 2012 3:41 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Thoughts on Thorium Molten Salt Reactors?
- Replies: 96
- Views: 37051
Re: Thoughts on Thorium Molten Salt Reactors?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbyr7jZOllI Sounds cool, I'm already too far away from fission energy to really do anything about it. Fission has always been easier but not as good as fusion, but what gets the job done gets the job done. I would prefer it if we can get our power from pB11 aneutronic...
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:17 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: USAF Energy Vision
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7199
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 3:13 am
- Forum: News
- Topic: Cold fusion in your microwave in 10 minutes
- Replies: 58
- Views: 55579
Rust (iron oxide) is almost non-magnetic, and in certain forms makes up a significant component of clay. If the "graphite" was from pencil "lead" as has been indicated before, the charcoal could have reduced the FeOx to Fe metal which is usually magnetic. No mystery here. Perhaps. And certainly wor...