Axil,
That is an elegant idea that makes all the construction
difficulties worthwhile if we could actually use present reactors and
technology to fast track adoption. I hope someone pursues this idea.
Fran
From: Axil Axil [mailto:janap...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 11:59 PM
To: vortex-l
Subject: EXTERNAL: [Vo]:TRISO LENR pellet
In the long run, Brillouin’s low energy nuclear reaction technology will beat
out Rossi's Hot cat reactor design. But there needs to be some design upgrades
to the Brilouin's current approach. A LENR TRISO fuel pellet design should be
invented. Like the Hot-Cat tube design, this pellet should be a completely
self contained unit including nickel or tunstun micro powder and the fuel
AlLiH4 just like Rossi's alumina reactor core tube.
The multi layered TRISO spherical pellet is a layered design featuring an inner
core of fuel consisting of nickel micro-powder and AlLiH4 surrounded by a
covering of alumina. Next, a thin coating of yttrium stabilized zirconium oxide
covers this core, then follows a thin layer of pyrolytic carbon (PyC) to
confine hydrogen, followed by a ceramic layer of SiC whose function is to
further confine hydrogen at elevated temperatures and to give the TRISO
particle a high degree of structural integrity, This LENR spherical pellet is
about the size of a queue ball where each layer of the composite is doped to be
electrically conductive to provide electrical heating of the alumina core.
As in the current Brillouin design, a very short but powerful electric pulse
heat the pellet pile in their bed where some hundreds of thousands of particles
take advantage of economies of scale the the utilities love so much. This
pellet can operate at 1400C and is used to retrofit existing nuclear and fossil
fuel generating stations using existing pumps and generators to feed the
existing grid using the existing grid interconnect power line network.
Now which design is more cost effective, 600,000 hot cats and there associated
micro processor controls or a nuclear station like 20 gigawatt centralized LENR
power station with a 600,000 pebble bed of dumb high temperature TRISO pellets.
