Pyrotechnic ballistic thermonuclear implosion system - using explosive charge to compress and heat lithium:7 capsule containing hydrogen

摘要

A pyrotechnic ballistic thermonuclear implosion system is intended for detonating thermonuclear reactions. An explosive charge is introduced into the tightly sealed in a tapering barrel leading into a cavity contains a tightly sealed striker piston and in the blind end, a lithium-7 capsule contg. an H2 gas or H2 pellet. The charge is fired, causing the piston to strike the capsule and completely compress it and its contents, sealing it into the cavity with its plastic metal. The H2 is thus completely compressed, and the kinetic energy is converted into heat and deformation work, which compacts and heats the Li and the contained gas, heating the Li and the gas to several hundred million degrees. The known reaction of the lithium-7 process takes place above the Lawson coefft., with an ions concn. approaching 1022 cm-3, with a specific heat of the H2 of only 0.01 Kcal/kg/degrees C and specific heat of the lithium of 0.005. A pressure of about 107 bar is reached with a temp. of is approx. 1 Gig-K.