Like Jones says Apollo is DOA. To make something for mass marketing with fissionable isotopes--Pu-239 from U-238 for example and neutrons is a security problem and very expensive. There is no competing with LENR with no neutrons IMHO.
Bob Cook On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Robin, > > You and I shared similar hybrid design thoughts on a modular mass-produced > sub-critical reactor 15 years ago... but the basis of the Apollo design > goes back before "cold fusion" and is still not very smart IMO -- since it > depends on 3He and extremely expensive magnets. It is DOA even after 28 > years of planning since it retains most of the disadvantages of fusion. > Here is some history. > > https://www.researchgate.net/publication/261511370_Apollo_-_ > An_advanced_fuel_fusion_power_reactor_for_the_21st_century > > The main goal for lowest net cost nuclear power from U - and this has been > obvious for 40 years to almost everyone in the industry - is to to avoid > the huge problem where 30% and up of the net cost of new plant goes to > bankers. Instead of one-off, there needs to be a single modular design, > smaller in capacity for use as multiple units, built on a batch flow > (aircraft style) production line at a rate of many per month. Financiers > sometimes get more than half of the net cost in the USA, since the reactor > itself takes 10 years to complete and they want to drag it out. A modular > design can be rail mounted and actually removed at the end of service. > > The next obvious design goal is go subcritical - use natural U fuel with > no enrichment and use multiple small makeup sources of neutrons to avoid > the extreme cost of a reactor built to contain a meltdown. The "tabletop > accelerator" was never fully developed for mass production, but it would > work in multiples as neutron generators in a subcritcal design that > benefits from overlapping neutron multiplication ratios - and is especially > suitable as a thermionic topper. > > mix...@bigpond.com wrote: > >> In reply to Jack Cole's message: >> Hi, >> [snip] >> >>> http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25922/apollo >>> -fusion-startup-googler-nuclear-power/ >>> >> Not much on the company website. I wonder if they are going to implement >> the model I suggested here on vortex a little while back? ;) >> >> Regards, >> >> Robin van Spaandonk >> >> http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >> >> >> >
