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A Different Kind Of Fission Plant

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 9:50 pm
by MSimon
http://powerandcontrol.blogspot.com/200 ... stuff.html

How to use a Bussard Neutron Generator to make a fission plant that can't go critical.

Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:30 am
by drmike
It's basicly a hybrid nuclear reactor: http://lpsc.in2p3.fr/gpr/PPNPport/node86.html

I love this title: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet ... s&gifs=yes
"The twenty-first century as the century of nuclear power*"

The Bussard reactor didn't exist when I was a student, but the basic idea hasn't changed in 30 years.