A clean nuclear blasting technique for the excavation of a new isthmus canal in Central America
Abstract
Based an new insights into the physics of thermonuclear burn waves a novel nuclear blasting technique is proposed for the excavation of a new Isthmus canal in Central America. It allows the spatial decoupling of a small fission trigger from the main DD fusion charge in the geometrical form of a cylinder with an extremely high length-to-diameter ratio in such a way that absolutely no fission products can escape into the atmosphere. A clean nuclear blasting technique could thus be made available.
Kurzfassung
Basierend auf neuen Einblicken in die Physik thermonuklearer Brennwellen wird eine neuartige nukleare Sprengtechnik für die Aushubarbeiten eines neuen Isthmuskanals in Zentralamerika vorgeschlagen. Sie erlaubt die örtliche Entkopplung des Spalttriggers von der eigentlichen DDFusionsladung in Form eines Zylinders mit extrem hohem Längen/Durchmesser Verhältnis derart, dass überhaupt keine Spaltprodukte mehr in die Atmosphäre gelangen können. Es zeichnet sich so eine eine saubere kerntechnische Sprengtechnik für sehr große Erdarbeiten ab.
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© 2004, Carl Hanser Verlag, München
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- Contents/Inhalt
- Contents
- Summaries/Kurzfassungen
- Summaries
- Technical Contributions/Fachbeiträge
- Improved Dancoff factors for cluster fuel bundles by the WIMSD code
- The impact of non-optimized operation of nuclear power plants on the nuclear fuel burn-up
- Experience with MTR fuel at the HOR reactor
- Comparison of two modern approaches for MBDA calculations of RBMK-type reactors
- Calculation of the energy deposition in the targets from C to U irradiated with intermediate energy protons
- U-Pb accelerator-driven sub-critical systems research at the proton beam of the JINR NUCLOTRON
- Steady state thermal-hydraulic analysis for the ETRR-2 Research Reactor
- Monte Carlo simulation of the ETRR-2 research reactor using the MCNP Code
- Preliminary evaluation of the fixed and fluidized bed nuclear reactor concept using the IAEA-INPRO methodology
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