Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Nuclear fusion – Fusion reaction by plural colliding plasmas or particle beams
Patent
1984-11-13
1987-01-27
Larson, Lowell A.
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Nuclear fusion
Fusion reaction by plural colliding plasmas or particle beams
376127, 376128, 376129, 376147, 313 62, 328234, G21B 102, G21D 700, H05H 114, H05H 124
Patent
active
046393480
ABSTRACT:
This is one of a series of nuclear fusion (vs. fission) inventions by this physicist-inventor. This invention is designed to burn the cleanest of all known fusion fuels: boron hydride (B-H, or p-.sup.11 B). Boron hydride has no free neutrons on either side of its reaction equation: p+.sup.11 B=3.alpha.+W. If this fuel can be made to fuse as planned the many problems associated with neutron-based fuels, deuterium-tritium (D-T) in particular, can be obviated. D-T gives off 80% of its energy in the form of neutrons. These make the apparatus radioactive; and the neutrons may be used to breed weapons grade fission material. Whereas, p-.sup.11 B cannot be used to make fission bomb material; its product particles are entirely safe inert helium particles. B-H fuel is abundant, available and inexpensive. Boron hydride comes in gas, liquid or solid form, stable or unstable. The invention at hand proposes to accelerate macromolecular ions of boron hydride (such as B.sub.2 H.sub.6) into one another, then reaccelerate the debris ions (p, .sup.11 B) into one another also. This is to be done by recyclotrons--cyclotrons modified to recirculate a similar device's output. Recyclotrons take advantage of the fact that modest energies to a particle accelerator correspond to enormous kinetic temperatures in a plasma.
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Larson Lowell A.
Terrell William E.
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