Jones— YES. IT SEEMS MORE AND MORE THAT half true statements are taken as “fully” true, if it comes from a mouth of an ‘authority”—such is life.
Lattice fusion is now called LENR. Combining it with a safe neutron U-235 induced fission is hard to believe as a practical source of heat in any separate lattice source of heat. NASA SEEMS TO AVOID THE SCHEME FOR CONTRILING THE HEAT EENERGY. A SEPART MIXED-ENERGY SOURCE OF NEUTRONJS (POLONIUM-BRILLIUM) MAY BE INVOLVED AS A SOURCE OF NEUTRONS. Bob Cook ------------------ From: Jones Beene<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2023 10:25 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Vo]:Accessing Icy World Oceans Using Lattice Confinement Fusion Fast Fission Is this early April fools from NASA? One of many big problems is that although lattice fusion reportedly can produce a small flux of neutrons, they are not fast neutrons... far from it. Fast fission requires very fast neutrons - typically about 1 MeV. Unless of course there has been a breakthrough which I've missed. There doesn't appear to be a direct reference online for "Lattice Confinement Fusion - Fast Fission" Does anyone have such a reference? H L V <[email protected]> wrote: Accessing Icy World Oceans Using Lattice Confinement Fusion Fast Fission https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Accessing_Icy_World_Oceans/ quote Icy World researchers have proposed using a nuclear powered, heated probe. However, rather than require either the plutonium-238 radioisotope heat source or an enriched uranium-235 fission reactor, with significant launch safety costs, we propose making use of the recent Lattice Confinement Fusion source used to efficiently fast-fission either depleted uranium or thorium in a molten lithium matrix. The resulting hybrid fusion fast fission nuclear reactor will be smaller than a traditional fission reactor where a lower mass power source is needed and provide efficient operation with thermal waste heat from reactor heats probe to melt through ice shelf to sub-ice oceans.
