…e just for shielding purposes. You also need a system that will breed more tritium (Li blankets), be able to efficiently recover and put that tritium into the fusion device without having a rad health issue for the tritium losses that come with this isotope of hydrogen (fortunately tritium‘s rad hazard is not very high) and have a plant setup to do all of your fusion reactor maintance remotely. I’d like to hear from Lockheed Skunkworks how they pl…
…micro fission pellet of U-233 surrounded by a cryogenic bath of deuterium-tritium forming the fission primary. Laser compression and initiation of the advanced fission primary causes approximately 50% of the atoms of the fissile fuel in the primary to fission. This fission produces high energy gammas and X-rays that pump the fusion secondary while confining the fusion primary using a form of inertial confinement – thereby reliably creating the co…
…t the radiation it emits to create a higher concentration of deuterium and tritium than normal water, and those particles are light enough relative to water itself to allow an assumption that they would be distributed more evenly throughout the pool. I understand that it takes a significant amount of energy to make that much deuterium or tritium, but they could use it as a simple go-no go kind of evaluation. IE, if there is a higher concentration,…
…munity has relied on mere guesses and assumptions to quantify these risks. Trivially small effects — even when multiplied many times — are still trivially small effects. How do we prepare ourselves for a cancer epidemic 15-20 years from now when we can’t even address the diabetes pandemic today? There will be no “cancer epidemic” from the Fukushima accident. The recent problems with diabetes are directly linked with the recent problems with obes…
…ve up. I’ll let history tell the truth. Brian Mays Sorry, but 3333 times a trivially meaningless number is still trivially meaningless. This is the Law of Very Small Numbers. To put it another way, 3333 fleas don’t weigh as much as an elephant, no matter how hard you wish, hope, and pray that they would. John Tucker “Instead, even when offered the opportunity to discard the animous, you just can’t resist employing obnoxious sarcasm. ” I guess I ca…
…into this. Candu reactors produce lots of tritium. For practical purposes, tritium is harmless. So the Canadian regulators set the limits high enough that a Candu could afford to meet them. Terrestrial’s design is an MSR which produces far less tritium than a Candu. Terrestrial argued that if the limits were safe enough for a Candu, then they were safe enough for the MSR. The regulators said no way and imposed far tighter limits on the Terrerstria…
…power plant operations, underground piping systems, the health effects of tritium leaks, radioactive material handling, the root causes of nuclear construction project delays, quality assurance systems, configuration management, nuclear plant reliability and the aging management program at nuclear power plants. He also claims a special expertise in nuclear power plant decommissioning – which might be one of the more accurate statements in his res…
…reactor design is that they intend to use FLiBe as the neutron-capture and tritium-breeding blanket. This also allows heat capture at very high temperatures. Given the proven ability of Li-7 to fission under fast neutron bombardment with a net neutron yield, I can see this working if they can get the rest of it to function. Engineer-Poet Looks like it’s ripe for an alternate intake pipe if such conditions become frequent. John ONeill ‘… and som…
…ou present options for those looking to power various sites. David Walters Tritium runs about $40,000 an ounce. I would hope there would be other isotopes that work! Rod Adams @David – May I have your permission to elevate this comment to a guest post? John Tucker If past movements in society are any indication the ONLY way to resolve this and move forward is relegating them to the fringe. The gay rights movement springs immediately to my mind as…
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