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What technological problems are associated with nuclear power and nuclear fusion?
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∙ 9y ago
There is an existing fusion technology that produces controlled amounts of fusion energy - more energy out of the fusion power generating system than it takes to run the fusion power generating system.
It might be worthwhile to remember that Ivy-Mike technology worked the very first time it was tried in the 1952 nuclear test. Mike technology was the basis of the first thermonuclear weapons in the US arsenal. Adapting Mike technology to be pure DT-DD fusion opens up many new applications in safe, economical, fusion power generation.
While historically practical nuclear fusion has used a small amount of fissionable material like U235 to produce the conditions for fusion - Today, there are smaller pure fusion devices optimized to make clean energy (not blast effects) from hybrid pure DT-DD fusion while producing no radioactive fission products and high level nuclear waste. Modern DT-DD pure fusion devices produce the overwhelming majority of their energy from the DD fusion reaction of Deuterium separated from sea water.
One such modern hybrid DT-DD fusion design is called mini-Mike, which produces a small predictable controlled energy yield of 250 GJ per shot.
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Description of a practical hybrid 2-stage fusion device -
mini-Mike is a two stage device that features a small hollow 2 mm diameter Deuterium-Tritium fusion capsule which in turn ignites a column of pressurized Deuterium cryo-liquid resulting in devices with safe and reliable energy yields optimized for power generation.
In 60 years, no other fusion technology (Magnetic Confinement or Inertial Confinement) has ever produced any net energy (more energy out of the fusion reaction than it takes to get the fusion plasma to fusion conditions).In 60 years, all existing MCF and ICF fusion systems have never worked (in the sense that they have not produced more energy from fusion than it took to get the fusion plasma to fusion conditions)..
Mike technology worked the first time it was tried and produced huge amounts of net energy (and has never failed).
Rather than placing our faith in scaling laws while we build ever larger and more expensive fusion experiments while trying to achieve break even energy generation - why not go back to the field and adapt technology that has never failed to finally find success in fusion?
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What is mass defect associated with?
nuclear fusion
What are the two gases associated with nuclear fusion?
Hydrogen and Helium
What do you think about Nuclear Fusion?
A new idea that could be a answer to energy problems.
Is nuclear chain reaction is called fusion?
The idea of nuclear fusion occurring at room temperature is called cold fusion.
What are the technical problems relatd to nuclear fusion?
Nuclear fusion normally occurs at high temperatures and pressures. A fusion reaction would melt the container and would have to be suspended by a magnetic field in a vacuum and the container would have to be continually cooled to prevent a meltdown.
What is mass defect associated with?
nuclear fusion
Which type of nuclear reaction is used in commercial power generation?
Nuclear fission is used in commercial power generation. We don't use fusion yet in that application because we have not conquered the technological problems in doing so.
What are the two gases associated with nuclear fusion?
Hydrogen and Helium
What form of nuclear energy is currently being used to produce electricity in the US?
The only form of nuclear energy currently used in the US, or anywhere in the world for that matter, to produce electricity is nuclear fission. There are ongoing experiments to attempt to use nuclear fusion, but the technological problems with that have not paid off yet.
What do you think about Nuclear Fusion?
A new idea that could be a answer to energy problems.
What are the social technological and economical costs of nuclear fusion?
These have not been determined because a nuclear fusion plant has not been built. Most attempts at nuclear fusion provide a great deal of energy to start the fusion process, so much that ordinary containment vessels would vaporize. In order to deal with this, it is necessary to contain the reaction with such a thing as a set of magnetic fields or with laser beams. Reactions have been made to happen, but there is a long way to go to get one that produces more energy than it consumes and can operate continuously. Another attempt, called cold fusion, has been largely regarded as an impossibility. So there are technological problems and economic problems, and there is a certain amount of money being spent on research, but the actual costs will not be known for some time.
A reaction in combining smaller atomic nuclei is?
nuclear fusion
What are the problems with nuclear fusion?
I found the website K1 Project very helpful. They had several articles underneath their Learn/Energy tab which should answer any questions about nuclear fusion.
What process produces the largest amount of energy given off by stars?
Nuclear Fusion
What are the technical problems related to nuclear fusion?
Nuclear fusion requires very high temperatures and immense pressures to start and continue. The problems with a nuclear fusion reactor would be:- 1) the high temperatures would melt the container: therefore, the reaction would have to be stored in a vacuum suspended by a magnetic field and the reactor would have to be continually cooled. 2) nuclear fusion occurs naturally in stars such as our sun: unless the fusion reaction was limited in size in some way, it would be likely that our planet is vapourised by the reaction.
Is fusion chemical nuclear or mechanical?
Fusion is a nuclear reaction.
The process of combining two small nuclei into one nucleus of larger mass is called?
Combining two atomic nuclei is called nuclear fusion.
