id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ydfku6pombcypgzrdyoqi4ltr4 Terry Kammash A promising approach to safe, proliferation resistant production of nuclear power 2009 4 .pdf application/pdf 3038 314 74 With the world population reaching about 10 billion by the midcentury, the requirement for carbon-free energy (estimated at 30 terawatts) Although a great international effort is currently underway aimed at producing pure fusion power, the fact system in which the fusion neutrons from a fusion reactor operating at Q-value slightly larger than unity are used to drive an energyproducing blanket in which uranium-233 fissile material is bred from thorium-232 and simultaneously burned to produce energy. either fission or fusion and, in some instances, by acceleratorproduced fast neutrons (Carminati et al., 1993). fusion-produced fast neutrons could indeed be utilized for this where E is the energy per fission, we obtain the power produced evaluated at the fusion neutron energy of 14.1 MeV, then we get fusion reactor with a very large Q-value which, as noted earlier, is neutrons, and also burned by them to produce energy. ./cache/work_ydfku6pombcypgzrdyoqi4ltr4.pdf ./txt/work_ydfku6pombcypgzrdyoqi4ltr4.txt