THE IONIC CENTRIFUGE AND FUSION NUCLEAR POWER

Erratum. The Ionic Centrifuge and Fusion Nuclear Power.

In one of my first papers before the National Academy of Sciences' I showed by six drawings the operation of an Ionic Centrifuge in two types of discharge. The first three are shown correctly with negatively polarized end plates and insulated cylinder. The last three are shown incorrectly with the end plates voltage marked positive. But the current shown is due to the excess of positive ions ov...

The gas centrifuge and nuclear weapons proliferation

© 2008 American Institute of Physics, S-0031-9228-0809-020-0 The most difficult step in building a nuclear weapon is the production of fissile material. One can either make plutonium-239 in a nuclear reactor or enrich uranium to increase the abundance of its fissile isotope uranium-235. Historically, enrichment has been the more obscure of the two routes, but the recent spread of one technology...

Some Calculations of the Currents in the Ionic Centrifuge.

The Gas Centrifuge and the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons

The gas centrifuge is a particularly challenging technology for the institutions of the existing nonproliferation regime. Centrifuge facilities can be reconfigured for the production of weapon-grade uranium in a comparatively short time-frame, while clandestine facilities are virtually impossible to detect with technical intelligence tools. A potential expansion in nuclear power and the natural...

Nuclear fusion reaction rates for strongly coupled ionic mixtures

We analyze the effect of plasma screening on nuclear reaction rates in dense matter composed of atomic nuclei of one or two types. We perform semiclassical calculations of the Coulomb barrier penetrability taking into account a radial mean-field potential of plasma ions. The mean-field potential is extracted from the results of extensive Monte Carlo calculations of radial pair distribution func...