An energy amplifier for "clean" nuclear energy production driven by a particle beam accelerator
CA 2174953 A1 · Owner: Rubbia, Carlo · Inventors: Rubbia, Carlo
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The method is for producing energy from a nuclear fuel material contained in an enclosure, through a process of breeding of a fissile element from a fertile element of the fuel material via a .beta.-precursor of said fissile element and fission of the fissile element. A high energy particle beam is directed into the enclosure for interacting with heavy nuclei contained in the enclosure so as to produce high energy neutrons. The neutrons thereby produced are multiplied in sub-critical conditions by the breeding and fission process. Said breeding and fission process is carried out inside the enclosure.
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- Filed July 25, 1994. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended July 25, 2014.
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