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Author: Wallace Manheimer
Requested Type: Poster
Submitted: 2025-02-28 00:21:05
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Abstract Text:
This contribution to the 2025 Sherwood meeting argues that the fusion project, whether MFE or IFE should end its multi decade hostility to using fusion neutrons to produce fuel for thermal nuclear reactors, or what the author had dubbed ‘fusion breeding’. As the less developed parts of the world struggle to achieve a better lifestyle, it seems unavoidable that thermal nuclear reactors will be used more and more, so much so that fissile fuel will become an important issue. At maximum breeding rate, it takes two fission breeders to fuel single thermal reactor of equal power; but one fusion breeder can fuel at least 5, and possibly as many as 10. Fusion breeding makes less of a demand on the fusion reactor than does pure fusion. For instance, on the MFE route, ITER could be an end as a breeder (1) , so that one does not have to develop who knows what DEMO, for who knows how many billions, over who knows how many decades. For laser fusion, a ~7% efficient laser with a target gain of ~50 is certainly not viable for pure fusion but is perfectly fine for fusion breeding (2).
1. Wallace Manheimer, Midcentury carbon free sustainable energy development based on fusion breeding, IEEE Access, December 2018, Vol 6, issue p6495464954,https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8502757
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Wallace Manheimer, Fusion: It’s time to color outside the lines, Open Journal of Applied Sciences, March 2024, https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=132258
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