what is the basis of working of arc reactor?
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This type of fusion reactor exists today at research pilot scale.
The reactor pictured, ITER, is under construction and is planned to be tHe first fusion reactor large enough to produce a net gain of energy. Basically it mashes two isotopes of hydrogen, deuterium and tritium, together at such high energies that they combine into one atom. When they fuse, the reaction produces helium and a free neutron. Critically, helium+neutron has less mass than deuterium+tritium, and the missing mass is converted to energy. That energy can be captured as heat to run a traditional steam-driven turbine (like any other power plant).
So what does the arc reactor's torus (donut) shape tell us? It means there are charged particles moving in a circle, contained by a magnetic field. High-energy particles usually have high energy because they're moving very fast, and magnetic fields can curve the motion of charged particles. Curving the particles' motion into a circle keeps them in one place long enough to get them to collide.
There is also a remarkable lack of cooling loops, turbines, or anything that a traditional thermal reactor would require. Which means the arc reactor produces electricity directly, rather than by first generating heat.
IT CONTAINS PALLADIUM CORE
The palladium is damaged by neutrons, so the specific isotope is important
Has electromagnetic coils in a torus
Emits blue-white light
Can be built in a cave with tools of moderate complexity
Requires no exotic materials outside what you could scavenge from dismantled conventional weapons systems
Runs low on power at inconvenient times, meaning it must have some sort of fuel or consumed charge
Palladium has been proposed as a substrate for "cold" fusion that does not require hot plasmas and containment toroids, but this concept is pretty widely discredited in the real world. Palladium does, however, have some interesting capture and decay properties.
Another isotope, Pd-107, produces Ag-107 (silver) via beta decay, releasing an electron when a neutron turns into a proton. (This is kind of the opposite reaction as the above.) Now, in real-world physics, the electrons balance the resulting atomic nuclei -- silver and rhodium have different numbers of protons from palladium, and the produced/consumed electrons just balance out the proton count so there is no net flow of electricity.
We have some good evidence for this gamma ray emission, because the suit's chestpiece unibeam weapon is clearly an emission of a large number of high-energy photons directly from the arc reactor. Normally, the gamma rays are directed inward to catalyze the device's operation, but they can be directed outward in a concentrated energy beam weapon:
So to summarize: electrons project outward from the inner core, and gamma rays project inward from the outer ring. Because this electron/photon counterflow creates a deficit of electrons (relative to protons) in the core, a massive electrostatic potential is developed and the palladium core attracts lower-energy electrons from the suit's wiring. The ejection of electrons from the core towards the rim of the device produces an electrical cell capable of generating enormous voltage and current.
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