Enhanced fission breeder reactor

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1978-10-20

1980-08-05

Engle, Samuel W.

176 9, 176DIG1, G21C 100

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042160588

ABSTRACT:
A large inertial confinement breeder reactor wherein neutron bursts produced by fusion, fission or combined fission and fusion are contained seriatim in a large chamber. Each burst results from interception of a large, sub-critical free-falling mass by a smaller upward accelerated slug such that the combined assembly is more than prompt-critical. The resulting thermal energy is absorbed by a spray which generally fills the chamber. The innermost portion of the spray comprises a dense slurry of actinides in molten sodium while the outer portions of spray comprise a very dilute slurry of actinides in molten sodium. The collected heated spray also contains the debris of the explosion and travels through a heat exchanger-precipitator means wherefrom dense slurry, lean slurry, precipitate, and thermal energy may be extracted.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4121969 (1978-10-01), Marwick
patent: 4121971 (1978-10-01), Marwick
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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