HYPER-FUSE - A novel inertial confinement system utilizing hypervelocity projectiles for fusion energy production and fission waste transmutation
Abstract
A conservative, simplified analytical model is adapted to carry out the parametric system studies of an inertial confinement fusion (ICF) reactor system to transmute fission products from a LWR. The principal parameters of interest are mentioned. Other fission products of possible interest for transmutation are analyzed. Possible reactor design for hyper-fuse are examined and the rail gun accelerator is found promising for propelling the pellets to the required velocities.
- Publication:
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Alternative energy sources II, Volume 6
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981aes.....6.2515H
- Keywords:
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- Fission Products;
- Fusion-Fission Hybrid Reactors;
- Hypervelocity Projectiles;
- Inertial Confinement Fusion;
- Transmutation;
- Light Water Breeder Reactors;
- Mathematical Models;
- Neutron Emission;
- Reactor Design;
- Thermonuclear Reactions;
- Plasma Physics