Re: [Vo]:Field Reversed Configuration

2012-08-23 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Thu, 23 Aug 2012 21:29:22 -0400: Hi, [snip] With such a device you can leave the fuel in a long time, burning up most of the actinides. Reprocessing implies extracting the little that remains, and adding it to the fresh fuel, so that over the long term there is

Re: [Vo]:Field Reversed Configuration

2012-08-23 Thread mixent
In reply to Axil Axil's message of Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:57:39 -0400: Hi, [snip] >www.nasa.gov/pdf/636883main_FDR_talk_NIAC_2012_final.pdf [snip] There is a drawing of solar panels attached to a fusion rocket. Has it not occurred to them, that energy is not a problem when you have fusion power? :)

Re: [Vo]:Field Reversed Configuration

2012-08-23 Thread Axil Axil
Corrrection: Interestingly, George Miley is a supporter of the fusion/fission hybrid. See http://fire.pppl.gov/aps06_manheimer.pdf On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Axil Axil wrote: > Such a concept is not possible politically. Pu239 breeding is not > acceptable both to the government of the

Re: [Vo]:Field Reversed Configuration

2012-08-23 Thread Axil Axil
Such a concept is not possible politically. Pu239 breeding is not acceptable both to the government of the US and the current head of the NRC. The thorium based U232/U233 fuel cycle produced by a fusion/fission hybrid may be acceptable as proliferation resistant because of the high level of U232 th

Re: [Vo]:Field Reversed Configuration

2012-08-23 Thread mixent
In reply to Puppy Dog's message of Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:21:13 +0300: Hi, [snip] >After fusion in the ball of plasma is completed, the fusion ash and the left >over tritium and deuterium find its way into a diverter that removes it from >the burn chamber. The high energy neutrons produced by fusio

Re: [Vo]:Field Reversed Configuration

2012-08-23 Thread Axil Axil
I have changed my opinion about the prospects for non-light water reactor development since I wrote that naïve engineering assessment of FRC hybrid fusion technology. There are insurmountable regulatory obstacles that block the path of any “non-standard” nuclear reactor development. From a scientif

RE: [Vo]:Field Reversed Configuration

2012-08-23 Thread ny . min
Puppy Dog, Just a preview of the Chan dancing hydride ion (H-) locked into an orderly line by a magnetic field courtesy of "The Coil" and Ni/C nano structures, but oscillating to the beat of an RFG accelerant. Reminds me of the recently proposed Noble Gas Engine theory where He- (Helium-elec