The author applies, develops and researches mini-sized MicroAB Thermonuclear Reactors for space propulsion and space power systems. These small engines directly convert the high speed charged particles produced in the thermonuclear reactor into vehicle thrust or vehicle electricity with maximum efficiency. The simplest AB-thermonuclear propulsion offered allows spaceships to reach speeds of 20,...

This report describes the current methods used by the Atomic Power Equipment Depart ment of the Genervl Electric Company for the analysis of superprompr critical nuclear excurions in lare war-rnsoderantd reactors The 7mchnical analysis tools used in studying hypothetical nuclear transients adescribed herein, without considering the probability of such an occurrence. The rod drop accident has be...

Streamers are a generic mode of electric breakdown of large gas volumes. They play a role in the initial stages of sparks and lightning, in technical corona reactors and in high altitude sprite discharges above thunderclouds. Streamers are characterized by a self-generated field enhancement at the head of the growing discharge channel. We briefly review recent streamer experiments and sprite ob...

The estimation of optimal support boundaries under the monotonicity constraint is relatively unexplored and still in full development. This article examines a new extreme-value based model which provides a valid alternative for completely envelopment frontier models that often suffer from lack of precision, and for purely stochastic ones that are known to be sensitive to model misspecification....

The uniformity of plasma generation in electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) reactors for materials processing, and the subsequent uniformity of fluxes to the substrate, are generally a function of the mode of the microwave radiation injected into the chamber. In this paper, a finite difference time domain (FDTD) simulation is used to demonstrate the consequences of exciting an ECR reactor using a...

Solution of space-time kinetic equations for coupled-core nuclear reactors " (1967). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3998. 1967 Signature was redacted for privacy.

Thermo Electric Conversion (TEC) is a technique, where heat is directly converted into electrical energy. Development of thermoelectric materials which operate at temperatures up to 700–900C may be an attractive proposition, due to its potential application to the proposed high temperature nuclear reactors. Technologically important high temperature thermoelectric materials and their prototype ...

Tungsten fuzzy nanostructures commonly form on the plasma-facing walls of magnetic-confinement nuclear fusion reactors, induced by helium plasma irradiation. We calculate field enhancement factors at fuzz tips tungsten, molybdenum, and tantalum, quantitatively representing degree focusing, based classical electromagnetic theory under quasistatic approximation, for a model system comprising subw...