Active hazard mitigation device

An active hazard mitigation device, comprising:

• a generally cylindrical housing having an interior and an exterior;
• a reservoir defined in the interior of the housing and containing thermal wax, one end of the reservoir being closed with a cap;
• a slider being disposed in the interior of the housing and translatable from a safe position to an armed position;
• a conduit for flow of the thermal wax in a melted state, the conduit extends from an end of the reservoir opposite the cap to a rear of the safe position of the slider;
• a BKNO3 pellet being disposed in a forward end of the slider, the forward end of the slider having a generally rectangular prismatic shape with four parallel edges that are chamfered;
• a lithium intermetallic thermal sensor being disposed in the interior of the housing and having one end closed and an open end adjacent the BKNO3 pellet when the slider is in an armed position;
• a graphite thermal conductor being disposed in the open end of the lithium intermetallic thermal sensor;
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• a pair of positioning pins being disposed in the interior of the housing on opposite sides of the slider, each pin having a spring-loaded ball detent wherein the spring-loaded ball detents interact with the chamfered parallel edges to hold the slider in the safe position and, after arming of the active hazard mitigation device, to hold the slider in the armed position,
• wherein when the thermal wax expands at a first temperature, the slider is configured to move from the safe position to the armed position under the graphite thermal conductor of the lithium intermetallic thermal sensor, and wherein when the lithium intermetallic thermal sensor activates and self-heats at a second temperature that is greater than the first temperature, heat from the lithium intermetallic thermal sensor is transferred by the graphite thermal conductor to ignite the BKNO3 pellet in the slider and thereby produce gas and heat that ignites energetic material disposed proximate to the BKNO3 pellet.