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- Title
On the implementation of a chain nuclear reaction of thermonuclear fusion on the basis of the p+B process.
- Authors
Belyaev, V.; Krainov, V.; Zagreev, B.; Matafonov, A.
- Abstract
Various theoretical and experimental schemes for implementing a thermonuclear reactor on the basis of the p+B reaction are considered. They include beam collisions, fusion in degenerate plasmas, ignition upon plasma acceleration by ponderomotive forces, and the irradiation of a solid-state target from B with a proton beam under conditions of a Coulomb explosion of hydrogen microdrops. The possibility of employing ultra-short high-intensity laser pulses to initiate the p+B reaction under conditions far from thermodynamic equilibrium is discussed. This and some other weakly radioactive thermonuclear reactions are promising owing to their ecological cleanness-there are virtually no neutrons among fusion products. Nuclear reactions that follow the p+B reaction may generate high-energy protons, sustaining a chain reaction, and this is an advantage of the p+B option. The approach used also makes it possible to study nuclear reactions under conditions close to those in the early Universe or in the interior of stars.
- Subjects
NUCLEAR reactions; THERMONUCLEAR reactions in stars; PROTON beams; HYDROGEN; THERMODYNAMICS; EQUILIBRIUM
- Publication
Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 2015, Vol 78, Issue 5, p537
- ISSN
1063-7788
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1063778815040031