Jones Beene wrote:
Yes, but you probably wouldn't use that anyway, as it is unproven. There are plenty of commercial sources available now that will reliably give you several thousand neuts per sec to start off the linked and staged series of HWHR multipliers. Ironically, the biggest market for small neutron generators is in oil exploration.
Well, I was kinda jokin'. What I was asking was can you burn yellowcake with a sufficient neutron source? Then, how much enrichment is required for a given neutron source.
I'm sure that you are thinking on a much larger scale than I; but, just how KISS can you make a reactor? A home reactor? I mean, it's probably illegal for me to own Pu. Hell, I couldn't own gold when I was a kid. Could you build a small fission reactor for home use? Why the deuterium if I have an adequate neutron source and the right amount of U enrichment? I don't like shoveling coal; although, I lived in a coal-heated house.
If my questions are too trite, please simply ignore.
