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US 8,509,374 B2Granted
Producing a design for a nuclear fuel element
AssigneeHBar Technologies, LLC
InventorGerald Peter Jackson
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Abstract
Method including: inducing, with antiprotons, nuclear fission in a material, such as depleted uranium; measuring leakage of radioactive byproduct produced by the fission; and producing, responsive to the measuring, a design for the nuclear fuel element. Apparatus, manufactures, and products produced by the method can be encompassed.
Claims20
A process comprising:
- inducing, with antiprotons, nuclear fission in a material, and then
- measuring leakage of radioactive byproduct produced by the fission, and then
- repeating said inducing and then said measuring until producing, responsive to said inducing and then said measuring, a design for a nuclear fuel element.
A process of measuring fission daughter migration out of at least one nuclear rocket fuel element sample, the method comprising:
- exposing at least one sample of a nuclear rocket fuel element to antiprotons, and then
- heating said at least one sample to nuclear rocket operational temperatures, and then
- measuring the emission of fission daughters from said at least one sample.
A process comprising:
- inducing, with antiprotons, nuclear fission in a material to produce radioactive byproduct, and then
- measuring leakage of the byproduct so as to produce a graphic representation of the leakage.
Apparatus including:
- means for inducing, with antiprotons, nuclear fission in a material to produce radioactive byproduct;
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- means for producing a measurement of leakage of the byproduct so as to produce a graphic representation of the measured leakage.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.