Are all the elements capable of showing Nuclear Fission Reaction ?
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Nuclear fission is a process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller nuclei as fission products, and usually some by-product particles.
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I am toying with the idea of using a tungsten sphere coated with lithium borosilicate glass inside an electrostatic confinement fusion[1] setup.
IEC fusion is already a source of neutrons when filled with deuterium gas. They are not reaching break even.
My idea is to use Lithium-6 and Boron-11 based glass coating on a tungsten foil sphere to convert Lithium to Tritium after absorbing a neutron and an alpha particle releasing 4.8 MeV.
The tritium reacts with the deuterium producing another alpha particle and releasing an energetic neutron totalling 17.6 MeV.
The neutron can knock apart Boron 11 into 3 alphas releasing 8.7 MeV. Alternatively the energetic neutron can react scatter off the tungsten producing 2 lower energy neutrons making up for losses.
The silicon and oxygen act as reaction poisons and stop a runaway reaction.
the system gains energy and the sphere heats up to 4000K. A ball 5.56 mm in diameter puts out 1420 of radiant power. A thermo photo voltaic setup converts this light up to 500 Watts to electrical power continuously. Optical fibers take a portion of the white light source throughout the home. The baseball sized IEC chamber is charged with enough material to operate at full power for 20 years. The entire system is at the center of a spherical hot water tank that absorbs stray neutrons sterilising the water heating it with waste heat. So the system provides hot water and steam heat along with electricity and light and even absorption cooling for refrigeration and air conditioning.
The cost of the system inproduction is minimal. Less than $1000 not counting the CHP component.
A similar system can be built into fusion hybrid electric cars charging batteries and providing light.
Lithium 6 is 7.5% of the lithium we mine. Extracting it and combining it with relatively abundant deuterium and Boron 11 provides 5 x the energy used today with no change in mining rates.
On the fission side Nobelist Carlo Rubbia has designed an accelerator driven subcritical reactor[2] that is fuelled by thorium and extremely safe and scalable.
The exciting development here is the development of matchbox sized accelerator on a chip[3]! Since thorium is as abundant as tin[4] and found everywhere we can imagine self replicating robots that chew through granite suck out thorium and extract enough energy to replicate themselves and power themselves for decades on a handful of rocks or make anything we like and provide power to it.
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