Methods and systems for producing fissile material from fertile feedstock
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Abstract
A method for generating a fissile material is described. The method includes positioning a fertile, non-fissile material within outer space, the position within an area of proton or other high energy particle radiation, rather naturally or artificially occurring, allowing the high energy particle radiation to impinge the fertile but non-fissile material over a time, the time based on amount of high energy particle radiation at the position, such that the non-fissile material gradually transmutes into a fissile material due to the impingement, and deploying the fissile material within a spacecraft.
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- 2010 Application Filing Year
- G21G Class
- 79 Applications Filed
- 42 Patents Issued To-Date
- 53.17 % Issued To-Date
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Benac, John Wilson | Houston, US | 1 | 0 |
# of filed Patents : 1 Total Citations : 0 |
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