Nuclear proliferation Since hot fusion power uses nuclear technology, its overlap with nuclear weapons technology is substantial.
A huge amount of tritium would be produced in fusion power plants. Tritium is used in the trigger of hydrogen bombs and in most modern boosted fission weapons but it can be also produced by nuclear fission. The energetic neutrons from a fusion reactor could be used to breed weapon usable plutonium or uranium for an atomic bomb (for example by transmutation of U238 to Pu239, or Th232 to U233). It will take at least $10 billion dollars to get through the NRC regulations and licensing. But before all that, the politicians will scuttle the effort if it looks promising to minimize world nuclear proliferation. Big fusion is not so much of a problem, only first world countries can afford those types of ITER fusion reactors but very small hot fusion reactors puts bomb capability into just about anybody's wheel house.. LENR might use commonly unknown some science,(actually, we know what that science is here on vortex) but that LENR based science may not need LENR to deal with the NRC. The NRC only knows or ...worse wants to know ...only light water reactors. On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Mark Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Oxyntix just got a 1M UKP venture capital investment ... it looks like > there are deep pockets that believe the company has got something. > > [m] > > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The reference patent states: >> >> "The development of fusion power has been an area of massive investment >> of time and money for many years. This investment has been largely centred >> on developing a large scale fusion reactor, at great cost. However, there >> are other theories that predict much simpler and cheaper mechanisms for >> creating fusion. Of interest here is the umbrella concept "inertial >> confinement fusion", which uses mechanical forces (such as shock waves) to >> concentrate and focus energy into very small areas." >> >> >> This is not a LENR reaction, it is an attempt at "inertial confinement >> fusion", a hot fusion technology. As such, I doubt that this >> technology will be successful. >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Here is the list of all the patents that may form the intellectual basis >>> of the referenced company. >>> >>> http://patents.justia.com/inventor/yiannis-ventikos >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Here is the Patent application title: HIGH VELOCITY DROPLET IMPACTS >>>> Inventors: Yiannis Ventikos (Oxford, GB) Nicholas Hawker (Oxford, GB) >>>> Class name: Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements >>>> nuclear fusion including accelerating particles into a stationary or >>>> static >>>> target >>>> >>>> http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20120281797 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -----Original Message----- >>>> From: Nigel Dyer >>>> >>>> >>>> Has anybody come across a company called Oxyntix, a spin off company >>>> from Oxford University >>>> >>>> http://www.oxyntix.com/ >>>> >>>> The website is very sparten, but it does include a sentence with a >>>> familiar ring to it: >>>> >>>> "A core technology we are promoting involves generation of extremely >>>> high temperatures, pressures and densities originating from fully >>>> controlled, optimised and scalable bubble collapse processes". One of >>>> the few press releases also has a familiar ring: " This technology has >>>> numerous potential applications, notably in nuclear fusion power >>>> generation and ...." >>>> >>>> Nigel >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
