IS NUCLEAR FUSION OUR NEXT GENERATION ENERGY?E=MC2 PUT TO TESTBy Ahmad Idris Ahmad

SPECIFIC AIM

To solve the problem of heating in a deuterium-tritium nuclear fusion

Turns out I uncovered how to make nuclear energy more feasible

My current aim is seeing nuclear powered cars, houses, and plants in the next 10years. Einstein has said it all, energy from virtually nothing

SELF SUSTAINING MECHANISM OF FUSION

D + T He +n + energy Li + n T + He Muon catalyst

From pions From cosmic showers

SOURCE OF REACTANTS

Deuterium is found in natural water. For every six thousand hydrogen atom, there is one

Tritium is abundant in space Can be synthesized in lab – though without much

success Self sustained source from lithium

Lithium in earth crust (28K) in water (207m)

REACTION CONDITIONS

The plasma density in a magnetically confined reactor is roughly 1015 particles/cm3, which is thousands of times less dense than that of air at room temperature.

Temperature of about a million degrees Mean decay time of pion is 26 ns

MY SOLUTION TO NUCLEAR HEATING, AND MORE….

THE CREATION OF MUONS Cyclotron is a particle accelerator that uses magnetic

and electric properties to produce extremely high acceleration

WHAT ARE PIONS

A pion (short for pi meson, denoted with π) is any of three subatomic particles: π0, π+, and π−. Pions are the lightest meson and they play an important role in explaining the low-energy properties of the strong nuclear force

REACTOR DESIGN AND PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION

PRINCIPLE OF OPERATION CONTINUED

YOU CAN’T BE SURE ABOUT THE EXTREME HEATING, YOU NEED A STRONG WALL

HOW THE DRAW BACK IN THERMO FUSION IS NOT AN ISSUE IN MY HYBRID MODEL

The maximum temperature that can be achieved in tokamaks by the resistive heating (or ohmic heating) method is about 3×107 K, twice the temperature in the center of the sun but less than needed to startup a reactor, about 108 K

 injection of high-energy neutral particle beams and radiofrequency waves of various types.

COMPARING ENERGY COST BETWEEN NUCLEAR, COAL, GAS, WIND, AND HYDRO POWER

CALCULATING THE PER KILOWATT-HOUR COST OF ENERGY

CONSTRUCTION COST PER KWH + PRODUCTION COSTS PER KWH + DECOMMISSIONING COSTS PER KWH

(NUCLEAR ONLY) = TOTAL COST PER KWH

TOTAL CONSTRUCTION COST [(MW RATING X 1,000) X USEFUL

LIFE X (CAPACITY FACTOR X 8,760)]

PER KILOWATT-HOUR PRODUCTION COSTS

 Coal, Gas and Nuclear estimates are 2008 data from NEI

Nuclear: $0.019Coal: $0.027Natural Gas: $0.081Wind:$0.030Hydroelectric: $0.009

Since the amount of energy produced at any plant is very large, deviations in production cost are not generally large enough to change the per kWh production cost 

DECOMMISSIONING COST PER KWH FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS

Depends on ROI  $0.0015 per kWh $500 million decommissioning fund assuming

a 4% return on investment over 40 years (useful life).