What about the waste products from a hybrid fusion-fission reactor using natural U fuel? Would the neutron source drive the fission products to be either stable elements or to radioisotopes with shorter half life?
What about using LENR as the neutron source? Some LENR fuels are reputed to cause "undesirable" neutron emission. Suppose that were harnessed. On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 7:55 AM, Jones Beene <[email protected]> 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. > > [email protected] 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 >> >> >> >
