FEASIBILITY OF COLLIDING BEAM FUSION-CATALYZED FAST FISSION CHAIN REACTOR WITH DIRECT CONVERSION OF ENERGY OF FISSION FRAGMENTS INTO ELECTRICITY AND SUPPRESSED PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION

摘要

While many issues were left moot of this SUMMARY, our conceptual physics quest provides ballpark numbers of the power density that might be produced: 100 - 1,000 MW/m~3, in a disk shaped cylinder or cell, with obvious ecological advantages over DT fusion reactors for which (ⅰ) direct conversion is unthinkable and (ⅱ) thermal conversion of 14 MeV is an order of magnitude more cumbersome than that of fission reactors (ⅲ) 20 - fold energy release per reaction and (ⅳ) cost of T fuel per energy produced is 100 times that of fission. This offers a reasonable incentive to conduct a simulation and engineering study. Compared to the Migma Ⅳ described here, 1. Strong focusing confinement should replace the weak focusing to gain the usual factor of 100-1000 in stored ion density; and confinement time; 2. Stabilization by driven oscillations of electron cloud should include new development that took place in the field of election cloud stabilization of colliding beams; 3. Study of extraction of the electrically charged fission fragments and fusion products is required to determine conversion efficiency; 4. Design study of a multi cylinder fission engine by stacking cells.