In the long run, Brillouin’s low energy nuclear reaction technology will beat out Rossi's Hot cat reactor design. But there needs to be some design upgrades to the Brilouin's current approach. A LENR TRISO fuel pellet design should be invented. Like the Hot-Cat tube design, this pellet should be a completely self contained unit including nickel or tunstun micro powder and the fuel AlLiH4 just like Rossi's alumina reactor core tube.
The multi layered TRISO spherical pellet is a layered design featuring an inner core of fuel consisting of nickel micro-powder and AlLiH4 surrounded by a covering of alumina. Next, a thin coating of yttrium stabilized zirconium oxide covers this core, then follows a thin layer of pyrolytic carbon (PyC) to confine hydrogen, followed by a ceramic layer of SiC whose function is to further confine hydrogen at elevated temperatures and to give the TRISO particle a high degree of structural integrity, This LENR spherical pellet is about the size of a queue ball where each layer of the composite is doped to be electrically conductive to provide electrical heating of the alumina core. As in the current Brillouin design, a very short but powerful electric pulse heat the pellet pile in their bed where some hundreds of thousands of particles take advantage of economies of scale the the utilities love so much. This pellet can operate at 1400C and is used to retrofit existing nuclear and fossil fuel generating stations using existing pumps and generators to feed the existing grid using the existing grid interconnect power line network. Now which design is more cost effective, 600,000 hot cats and there associated micro processor controls or a nuclear station like 20 gigawatt centralized LENR power station with a 600,000 pebble bed of dumb high temperature TRISO pellets.
