Jones – I My earlier answer to your comment about Thorium fission, I thought you were suggesting fissioning by neutrons. In reading your earlier comment on the Holmild process I realize you meant muon induced fission of Th-232.
I agree with you that would be possible, but it would create a radioactive mess. Bob Cook From: Jones Beene Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2017 1:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:Could the future that started out as cold fusion be ... tada... thorium fission ? Axil Axil wrote: The text covered by the picture as follows: ,,, metallic hydrogen produces reactions at a distance. This was shown in the exploding wire experiments where uranium was fissioned in a separate chamber isolated from the exploding wire by a glass wall. I missed the citation for this? However, it does sound very much like what I am suggesting but using thorium instead of uranium as the target of muon production. The beauty of muon-induced fusion is that you do not need to be concerned about critical mass and hunreds of tons of reactant, lots of moderators and an optimal neutron economy etc - all of which require a large form factor In fact, with muon induced fission, the thorium fuel can actually be mixed with boron to immediately convert free neutrons into energy before thorium can absorb them. We want to avoid any proliferation risk. Smaller would be better. Of course, LENR is preferable since it promises small devices with no radioactivity at all, but that may not materialize as quickly as a larger form factor, which is intermediate between grid power and home power. The requirement for gamma shielding is still there .... with any kind of fission or hot fusion, but one can imagine many applications for medium-sized power plants and large vehicles which can accommodate adequate shielding - locomotives, earth movers and boats. This could happen years or decades sooner with thorium fission than LENR can be perfected and introduced. Let's face it - there is no operational LENR today, nothing even close thanks to Rossigate -- and yet we had operational thorium reactors in 1965 (the MSRE at Oak Ridge) but that design was doomed from the start (by needing enough fissile inventory to make a bomb, which is the main thing that muon-induced fission avoids). I think there is a place for this technology - assuming of course that Holmlid is correct.
