Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Nuclear fusion – Inertial confinement
Patent
1980-05-14
1982-12-14
Cangialosi, Sal
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Nuclear fusion
Inertial confinement
3133621, G21B 100, H01J 2946
Patent
active
043637744
ABSTRACT:
An intense high current, high voltage pulsed beam comprising bursts of electrons of less than 200 nanoseconds duration each, having a beam radius of about 0.5 mm. is projected through an anode consisting of a hollow tube with much smaller diameter than that of the diode tube surrounding the cathode and with diameter diminishing with deeper penetration into the tubular anode. By appropriate selections of combinations of materials, sizes, shapes, and surface treatments surrounding the beam in its travel through the anode, or by means such as ion beams directed back along the beam, or by laser pulses on selected spots inside the anode or on the cathode tip, or by controlled supply of appropriate gases or vapors through a small diameter tubular cathode, either metallic or dielectric, and separately into the tubular anode near the end farthest from the cathode and nearer the target, the beam is made to pinch down to a radius of 0.1 mm. or less, whereupon the beam can strike a solid state target producing nuclear fusion and many useful applications including energy production by fusion, space craft propulsion, and production of new heavy transuranic elements. By introducing selected and controlled local bunching of ions in the finely pinched beam, tiny clusters of the order of 10.sup.8 to 10.sup. ions of various elements including ions of the heaviest elements can be accelerated to energies of up to more than 10.sup.12 electron-volts per ion which upon impact upon a suitable solid state target produces clusters of showers of particles at such high densities in space and time that they overlap and produce useful energy and many important new kinds of applications.
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Cangialosi Sal
Hall William D.
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