Would you trust your next door neighbor to responsibly manage a fission reactor in his basement?
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There are some characteristics of a nuclear fission reactor that will be common to every nuclear fission reactor.
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In particular, we should drop the requirement that the commission be reimbursed for reconsidering new fission reactor designs.
The neutrons are created in a fission reactor, and slowed to incredibly low speeds by materials known as moderators.
The fission-reactor designs of the start-ups are very different from the existing plants and even from the advanced designs put out by the established players.
Thermoelectric coupling uses heat from the decay of a radioactive fuel (as opposed to the full-scale nuclear fission which powers a reactor on Earth) as its energy source.
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This reactor does not use fission, the process of splitting atoms into smaller elements employed by every commercial power reactor currently operating on earth.
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Moses says that together with emerging laser amplification technology that is less power hungry, and the huge energy gain from the fission reaction, a combo reactor would deliver 200 times the energy it consumes.
Rather than create electricity by heating water and turning a turbine, Wilson's new reactor would use nuclear fission to produce energy from molten salt.
The good news is that the big names in nuclear energy -- like Areva, Hitachi, General Electric and Toshiba -- have recently been joined by a bevy of high-tech start-ups seeking to develop advanced nuclear-reactor designs for both fission and fusion energy production.
The Earth is warmed naturally by its own nuclear fission reactors within and also by the sun, that big nuclear fusion reactor.
But in Dr Rostoker's reactor, the helium nuclei created by the process of light fission would be speedy enough to escape from the ends of the ellipsoid, where the magnetic field is weakest.
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