Fusion chain reaction
- From: eastmond@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:59:37 -0700
Hi,
I was wondering what would happen if a roughly 10 MeV proton or
neutron was fired into
a large dense target consisting of a mixture of deuterium and tritium
- let's say several cubic metres of gas held at high pressure but low
temperature so that it is almost at the density of liquid water. I
imagine that the target is large and dense enough so that the
projectile particle is guaranteed to scatter off a deuterium or
tritium atom rather than pass straight through the target.
Would the high energy particle transfer enough kinetic energy to a
number of deuterium or tritium atoms so that they ricochet off and
fuse with other deuterium/tritium atoms and thus produce tritium,
helium-3 and further
protons and neutrons?
Could one end up with a self-sustaining chain reaction occurring at
relatively low temperature?
John
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