I hate to bring this up, but compressing a metal object (like this device does to coinage) is exactly what the explosives in an ATOMIC BOMB do. What is the conductivity of Uranium? Likewise, what is conductivity of Plutonium??!?! EGADS. Testing this with a small sample of a transuranic element (and maybe a neutron source to boot) might be an exceedingly powerful (read: dangerous!) idea.
Also, what about compressing a uranium pellet target in a deliberately weak container surrounded by water? Heavy water would further reduce thermal neutron emissions if desired. Regardless, the weak container walls would collapse, the plasma would heat the water, make steam = power generation.
The pellet would fission and explode, what percentage of the uranium would be fizzled (split)? If this is a high percentage (versus moderated reactions using Boron), Can we have small nuclear reactors with NO MELTDOWN CAPABILITY since the reaction depends user input in the form of an electric charge to implode the target pellet... Makes you think. Of course, I'm a programmer not a nuclear engineer. Ideas anyone?
-- Kevin Rice
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I hate to bring this up, but compressing a metal object (like this device does to coinage) is exactly what the explosives in an ATOMIC BOMB do. What is the conductivity of Uranium? Likewise, what is conductivity of Plutonium??!?! EGADS. Testing this with a small sample of a transuranic element (and maybe a neutron source to boot) might be an exceedingly powerful (read: dangerous!) idea.
Also, what about compressing a uranium pellet target in a deliberately weak container surrounded by water? Heavy water would further reduce thermal neutron emissions if desired. Regardless, the weak container walls would collapse, the plasma would heat the water, make steam = power generation.
The pellet would fission and explode, what percentage of the uranium would be fizzled (split)? If this is a high percentage (versus moderated reactions using Boron), Can we have small nuclear reactors with NO MELTDOWN CAPABILITY since the reaction depends user input in the form of an electric charge to implode the target pellet... Makes you think. Of course, I'm a programmer not a nuclear engineer. Ideas anyone?
-- Kevin Rice
http://www.JustAnyone.com
kevin@ no.spam. Justanyone.com