Direct nuclear/mechanical energy conversion - using magnetic nuclear fuel inserts in rotor/stator configuration

摘要

At least two counter rotating rotors with permanent magnet poles, even in number of either ferri- or ferro-magnetic nuclear fuel material are used and so synchronised that a complete cycle of motion is divided into twice the number of stages as there are pairs of poles, half of these stages being "push" stages in which energy is required to overcome the coulomb force energy and the other half recovery stages in which the coulomb force energy is released. By superimposing a transverse two- or poly-pole magnetic field on that of the rotating poles of the rotors, the effects of the combined fields subject various parts of the mechanical assembly to various forces which do not affect rotor motion and there is a net energy gain between the "push" and recovery stages which energy gain is taken off at an output shaft. More economical energy conversion than that involving nuclear-thermal followed by thermo-mechanical conversions.