mix...@bigpond.com wrote:
15 kW for 18 hours at 5 MeV / reaction equates to 120 mg of Nickel. IOW the
amount that would actually react is 120 mg.
I gather you are suggesting that much of the Ni will eventually react,
but in the 18-hour experiment only 120 mg did react. The rest is
"unburned fuel" if you will. It will eventually . . . do what?
Transmute into copper?
I wonder what keeps the whole shebang from going off at once?
A "catalyst" is a material that promotes a reaction, and is then freed
up to promote it again. Catalysts are not used up. So perhaps it is a
misnomer to call this a catalyst.
Perhaps only some of it transmutes, some of the time, and the rest is
used over and over again to promote light element fusion.
- Jed
