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Conference on Nuclear Training and Education: A Biennial International Forum (CONTE 2025)
February 3–6, 2025
Amelia Island, FL|Omni Amelia Island Resort
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Christmas Night
Twas the night before Christmas when all through the houseNo electrons were flowing through even my mouse.
All devices were plugged in by the chimney with careWith the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.
R. T. Perry, T. A. Parish, W. B. Wilson
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 8 | Number 1 | July 1985 | Pages 1454-1459
Blanket Neutronic | Proceedings of the Sixth Topical Meeting on the Technology of Fusion Energy (San Francisco, California, March 3-7, 1985) | doi.org/10.13182/FST85-A39971
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
A “fusion plate” is designed for use with the Texas A&M University TRIGA reactor. The plate would contain 6LiD and could produce 14 MeV neutrons through thermal neutron induced 6Li(n,∝)3T reaction and subsequent T-D fusion as the tritons slow down. The results are based on the source produced from a plate 60 × 60 cm, containing 324 grams of 6LiD, which is placed in a thermal flux of 2×1012 n/cm2-s. The total neutron production from the T-D reaction and other significant reactions is 1.5×1012 neutrons/sec. The spectra resembles that from a 400 KeV plasma.
