Induced nuclear reactions: processes – systems – and elements – Nuclear fusion – Fusion reaction by plural colliding plasmas or particle beams
Patent
1997-02-19
1998-10-20
Wasil, Daniel D.
Induced nuclear reactions: processes, systems, and elements
Nuclear fusion
Fusion reaction by plural colliding plasmas or particle beams
G21B 102
Patent
active
058258361
ABSTRACT:
The subject invention is a nuclear fusion reactor. It operates by colliding particle beams from at least four different directions. The beams collide in a matrix that guides the particles to the reaction's center by their mutual electrostatic repulsion. In the preferred embodiment the reactor comprises primarily four high energy particle accelerators (11a, 11b, 11c, and 11d). At the reactor's center, the accelerators' four beams intersect at angles of approximately 109.471220634491 degrees. The exact measure of the preferred angle is given by the measure of the obtuse interior angle of an isosceles triangle that has two sides measuring the square root of three units and a base measuring twice the square root of two units. Accelerated to fusion producing velocities, the four particle beams intersect in a high-vacuum reaction chamber (12). The resulting collision matrix funnels the accelerated particles into the center of the reaction zone causing some of the fuel particles to fuse rather than to scatter. This reactor's collision matrix should result in a higher collision rate than that of previous non-neutralized beam-beam reactors. When the reactor is inducing fusion with lightweight elements such as deuterium, energy is released, although not necessarily more energy than it consumes. This reactor is inherently safe in that it cannot melt down or explode. Since the fuel for fusion is cheap and in virtually unlimited supply this reactor or some future improvement of its design could possibly yield virtually unlimited power.
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