Author: IZAK BRNADIĆ
Shool: Prirodoslovna škola Vladimira Preloga
Country: CROATIA
e-mail: izak.brnadic@gmail.com
An inertial electrostatic fusion reactor would be used as a neutron source. The neutrons produced by the fusion reaction would be moderated and then used to activate a series of chemical products of nuclear fission. In neutron activation, the nucleus of a chemical element receives a neutron. Considering the above in the context of the uranium fuel cycle extension, fission waste products e.g. U-238, Am-241 would capture one or two neutrons and thus become fissile, i.e. fuel for a fission reactor.