In reply to Robin's message of Mon, 20 Mar 2023 07:10:35 +1100: Hi, I wrote:-
"This may be an even more likely route, since during a simple elastic two body collision between a daughter nucleus and a D nucleus, the D will end up with most of the energy." This is not correct. The D doesn't get *most* of the energy, however for a daughter nucleus with a mass of 64 amu, the D does get ~14 MeV, assuming the fission reaction yielded about 160 MeV of kinetic energy. That ~14 MeV may split the D (2.2 MeV required), or simply be kinetic energy of 14 MeV. This 14 MeV D nucleus may then go on to split one or more other D nuclei, however note that the most likely outcome is that kinetic energy in general will be used up ionizing atoms, and not result in any nuclear interactions. Nevertheless, some neutron production should occur, so this method may be preferable to the conventional methods, where essentially all kinetic energy of the daughter nuclei is converted to heat in the lattice. Cloud storage:- Unsafe, Slow, Expensive ...pick any three.
