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Cattle industry poised to lead the way to a cooler Earth
In discussing how to counter global warming, it’s pretty easy to argue that nuclear should be the major electricity source and heat producer to replace fossil fuels. At 6 grams per kilowatt-hour, it has the lowest carbon emissions of any energy source, according to the United Nations, and is objectively the safest form of energy for humans and the environment alike, again from a recent UN report.
A. D. Krumbein, Y. Paiss, H. Zmora, M. Rosenblum
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 9 | Number 3 | May 1986 | Pages 499-502
Technical Note | ICF Target | doi.org/10.13182/FST86-A24737
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A proposal has been made to measure the compressed fuel areal density, ρR, in inertial confinement fusion targets by detecting the radionuclides produced by the absorption of fusion charged particles in the target shell material. Calculations were performed for a deuterium-tritium pellet surrounded by a shell of either Li2SiO3 or B2O3, and the ratio of the number of proton reaction products in 7Li, 10B, or 11B to the number of deuterium-deuterium neutrons was obtained as a function of pellet ρR. The results show a strong dependence of this ratio on ρR for ρR values between 0.01 and 2.0 g/cm2. Methods for independently determining fuel ion temperature and shell ρR are also discussed.
