BG106282A - Method for energy generation and radioactive waste treatment - Google Patents

Abstract

The method is used for energy generation from blasting relative particle nuclei in closed plasma. It is based on data of interaction of different nuclei (from hydrogen to uranium) with energy ranging from 3 to 200 GeV/nucleon. Data indicate that the total charge of the products from the destroyed nuclei is smaller than their charge before the blast, hence the nuclear mass is reduced. On the other hand, however, secondary particles generate, predominantly light mesons - pions. In bombarding massif nuclei such as 12c and heavier than it nuclei, with particles accelerated by energy ranging from 3 to 10 GeV/nucleon, the total mass of the end products is smaller than that of the secondary particles. The difference in mass before and after the impact is converted into kinetic energy and is taken away by the flying away end products, and in their successive impact with the particles of the closed plasma they increase its heat energy, or temperature, respectively. The method can be used in controlled thermonuclear synthesis of light nuclei, by introducing admixtures of more massif nuclei (carbon and heavier nuclei). The irradiation of the plasma fuel with neutral particles of energy range from 3 to 10 GeV/nucleon can increase the plasma temperature to 100 000 000 degrees C, required for the synthesis of the light nuclei. It is possible that the admixtures can be radioactive wastes, which in a series of successive irradiations can be converted to stable end products. The method can serve for building a new type of reactor with magnetically closed fuel of heavy nuclei, such as uranium, in a self-supplying system of pieces of equipment, including neutral particle beam accelerator maintaining the combustion in the reactor. 4 claims