Contained nuclear explosion breeder reactor system

Details Contained nuclear explosion breeder reactor system Contained nuclear explosion breeder reactor system

1979-05-21

1982-08-17

Cangialosi, Sal

Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements

Combined

376102, 376914, G21C 900

Patent

active

043449131

ABSTRACT:
A large free-falling mass with a hollow vertical hole therethrough is intercepted by a smaller sub-critical high velocity downward traveling mass and with a smaller sub-critical high velocity upward traveling mass. A resulting explosion is contained within a large chamber which contains much molten sodium spray which attenuates the effects of the explosion and absorbs the explosion's energy and debris. The heated molten sodium with debris provides useful thermal energy to a heat exchanger means and materials for new masses and for new assemblies that are manufactured from precipitate therefrom. The reactor system is a net consumer of plutonium and converts spent enriched uranium LWR fuels into enriched (mostly of U.sup.233) uranium by the neutron irradiation of thorium.

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patent: 3659649 (1972-05-01), Dunlap
patent: 4121969 (1978-10-01), Marwick
patent: 4121971 (1978-10-01), Marwick
The Los Alamos Primer, LA-1, Serber et al., (4/43), pp. 21-24.
Exploding Reactors for Power by Edward F. Marwick, (1/27/73), Julia Marwick Books, 320 Happ Rd., Northfield, Ill. 60093, pp. 1-40.

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