Perhaps I didn't use the right keywords, but I was surprised I did not find any mention of "Traveling wave reactors" or "breed and burn reactors" on the fusor site. You have probably read about this already, but I thought I would post and get some feedback. Here is a New York Times article concerning this fission reactor concept (just a computer model):
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/02/23 ... 72189.html
This concept originated in the 1950s, but apparently is in vogue again thanks to John Gilleland from TerraPower LLC using their supercomputer computations.
Dave
Traveling wave reactor - fission
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Re: Traveling wave reactor - fission
You didn't see anything here on this or on Carlos Rubbia's energy amp accelerator/reactor for burning fission waste because this is a Fusion, experimentalist site, and we don't discuss things that are illegal for us to play with very much at all, though many of us understand the concepts quite well.
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