SINGLE-PASS, HEAVY ION FUSION, SYSTEMS AND METHOD FOR FUSION POWER PRODUCTION AND OTHER APPLICATIONS OF A LARGE-SCALE NEUTRON SOURCE

摘要

A single-pass heavy-ion fusion system for power production from fusion reactions alone, power production that uses additional energy of fission reactions obtained by driving a sub-critical fission pile with the neutrons from fusion reactions, destroying high-level and/or long-lived radioactive waste by intense bombardment with fusion neutrons, or for the production of neutron beams for various applications includes a new arrangement of current multiplying processes that employs a multiplicity of isotopes to achieve the desired effect of distributing the task of amplifying the current among all the various processes, to relieve stress on any one process, and to increase the design margin for assured ICF (inertial confinement fusion) ignition for applications including but not restricted to the above list. The energy content and power of the ignition-driver pulses are greatly increased, thus increasing intensity of target heating and rendering reliable ignition readily attainable.

主权项

1. A reaction chamber, comprising:
a reaction vessel; within said reaction vessel, a lithium body for receiving at least one fuel pellet therein, said lithium body defining at least one channel for delivering at least one energy pulse to said fuel pellet; a system for delivering liquid lithium to an interior of said reaction vessel in at least one of the forms of:
jets and sprays to diminish blast forces and provide neutron shielding;as sheets that rupture immediately after each energy pulse but reform to act as curtains that reduce backflow of the low pressure gases released by each energy pulse; andas thick layers flowing along the inner chamber surface in a helical path toward the ends of the cylindrical chamber; and a controller for regulating flows of said liquid lithium.