Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Combined – With laser
Patent
1982-02-11
1985-03-19
Cangialosi, Sal
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Combined
With laser
376321, 376367, 372 56, 372 57, G21C 1502, H01S 309
Patent
active
045058768
ABSTRACT:
A laser using heat and thermionic electrical output from a nuclear reactor in which heat generated by the reactor is utilized to vaporize metal lasants. Voltage output from a thermionic converter is used to create an electric discharge in the metal vapors. In one embodiment the laser vapors are excited by a discharge only. The second embodiment utilizes fission coatings on the inside of heat pipes, in which fission fragment excitation and ionization is employed in addition to a discharge. Both embodiments provide efficient laser systems that are capable of many years of operation without servicing. Metal excimers are the most efficient electronic transition lasers known with output in the visible wavelengths. Use of metal excimers, in addition to their efficiency and wavelengths, allows utilization of reactor waste heat which plagues many nuclear pumped laser concepts.
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Cangialosi Sal
Gibson Robert P.
Hilton Harold W.
Lane Anthony T.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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