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IS NUCLEAR FUSION OUR NEXT GENERATION ENERGY?E=MC2 PUT TO TESTBy Ahmad Idris Ahmad
SPECIFIC AIM
To solve the problem of heating in a deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion
Turns out I uncovered how to make nuclear energy more feasible
My current aim is seeing nuclear powered cars, houses, and plants in the next 10years. Einstein has said it all, energy from virtually nothing
SELF SUSTAINING MECHANISM OF FUSION
D + T He +n + energy Li + n T + He Muon catalyst
From pions From cosmic showers
SOURCE OF REACTANTS
Deuterium is found in natural water. For every six thousand hydrogen atom, there is one
Tritium is abundant in space Can be synthesized in lab – though without much
success Self sustained source from lithium
Lithium in earth crust (28K) in water (207m)
REACTION CONDITIONS
The plasma density in a magnetically confined reactor is roughly 1015 particles/cm3, which is thousands of times less dense than that of air at room temperature.
Temperature of about a million degrees Mean decay time of pion is 26 ns
MY SOLUTION TO NUCLEAR HEATING, AND MORE….
THE CREATION OF MUONS Cyclotron is a particle accelerator that uses magnetic
and electric properties to produce extremely high acceleration
WHAT ARE PIONS
A pion (short for pi meson, denoted with π) is any of three subatomic particles: π0, π+, and π−. Pions are the lightest meson and they play an important role in explaining the low-energy properties of the strong nuclear force
REACTOR DESIGN AND PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION
PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION CONTINUED
YOU CAN’T BE SURE ABOUT THE EXTREME HEATING, YOU NEED A STRONG WALL
HOW THE DRAW BACK IN THERMO FUSION IS NOT AN ISSUE IN MY HYBRID MODEL
The maximum temperature that can be achieved in tokamaks by the resistive heating (or ohmic heating) method is about 3×107 K, twice the temperature in the center of the sun but less than needed to startup a reactor, about 108 K
injection of high-energy neutral particle beams and radiofrequency waves of various types.
COMPARING ENERGY COST BETWEEN NUCLEAR, COAL, GAS, WIND, AND HYDRO POWER
CALCULATING THE PER KILOWATT-HOUR COST OF ENERGY
CONSTRUCTION COST PER KWH + PRODUCTION COSTS PER KWH + DECOMMISSIONING COSTS PER KWH
(NUCLEAR ONLY) = TOTAL COST PER KWH
TOTAL CONSTRUCTION COST [(MW RATING X 1,000) X USEFUL
LIFE X (CAPACITY FACTOR X 8,760)]
PER KILOWATT-HOUR PRODUCTION COSTS
Coal, Gas and Nuclear estimates are 2008 data from NEI
Nuclear: $0.019Coal: $0.027Natural Gas: $0.081Wind:$0.030Hydroelectric: $0.009
Since the amount of energy produced at any plant is very large, deviations in production cost are not generally large enough to change the per kWh production cost
DECOMMISSIONING COST PER KWH FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS
Depends on ROI $0.0015 per kWh $500 million decommissioning fund assuming
a 4% return on investment over 40 years (useful life).
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