KeV and MeV bond reactions with practical applications – atomic fuels, and extended nuclear materials
Ideal Weapon: Can Hafnium Bombs Replace Nuclear Bombs? at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHPzQrJ8D7M
Suggest you use NuDat3 at BNL to see all the isotopes that can be used. You also need all the magnetic moments, which I think they will be adding. Most of the radioactive isotopes can be used for their reactions. Not just stable ones if their half life is greater than nanoseconds. You can go shorter times it just takes more computer time. I call these kinds of reactions “atomic fuels” and they should eventually make desktop and modular “Mr Fusion” devices available in a range of sizes and power ratings. SpaceX can use GigaWatt modules. Lots of uses. Lots of groups already working. The lighter isotopes down in the “fusion reaction groups” are usually cheaper. Part of the cost is getting basic data, and high purity reliable sources. I been following these kinds of fuels for just at 50 years now. The AI computers are not particularly good at AI, but they have brought the cost of computing down.
I regularly review all the groups working with KeV and MeV bonds. The off-the-shelf tools and materials now are allowing many things that were “impossible” a few years ago, to be done deliberately with almost no guessing. “First principles” methods with molecules, atoms, proteins, nanostructures, picometer level processes, inside the nucleus, even gluon fluids are getting routine and well verified. Even neutrino detection, generation and communication are getting routine.
I will give you a hint that you should think “magnetic fields all the way down”. My own interest has been quantum electrodynamics for over 55 years, then gravitational potential modeling and calibration, then dynamic gravitational fields. When you get inside the nucleus at those energy densities you cannot ignore gravitational vacuum effects. As Robert Forward suggested it does all fit together with a fairly simple change of units and serious effort to get groups working together at global scale. I invested the last 26 years of the Internet Foundation to global collaboration because the delays are not technical as much as groups refusing to be clear and factual and open.
You do not have to use click bait “bombs”. New industries are exciting and useful in their own right. If you add $Thanks it is easier for people to buy you a cup of coffee now and then.
An “atomic fuel” with KeV bonds would shrink SpaceX fuel tank from 100 meters to 1 meter as a visual guide, greatly increase impulse and simplify maintenance. Pretty much remove the entire booster worth of weight.
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Richard Collins, The Internet Foundation
