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RE: Breeder reactors
It is not necessarily true that you would need the fisson plants to benefit.
The benefit of having a depeted uranium blanket around a fusion reactor is
energy multiplication. The neutrons released by fusion have an energy of
about 14 Mev and you can collect that energy by slowing them down in a
medium. But if the medium is uranium you get some additional direct fission
reactions and the 200 Mev associated with each fission. This mutiplication
provides a straightforward way to make it easier to reach an engineering
breakeven point for the plant where you get more energy out of the plant
than you put into it.
A. Joseph Nardi, Supervisory Engineer
Westinghouse Electric Company
P. O. Box 355
Pittsburgh, PA 15230
Telephone: 412-374-4652
FAX Number: 412-374-3357
email: nardiaj@westinghouse.com
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> From: David Whitfill[SMTP:djwhitfill@MSN.COM]
> Reply To: David Whitfill
> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:05 AM
> To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
> Subject: Breeder reactors
>
> Using a fusion reactor for breeder purposes only helps you if you have
> nuclear (fission) plants that will benefit from them. The US has about the
> most bone head energy future policy imaginable: none. We better wake up
> and start replacing aging plants period, whether coal or nuclear. A
> credible plan for our energy future will include all types of power
> plants, including nuclear.
>
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