Nano-hetero structures for... direct nuclear energy conversion into electricity

Found here: https://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/thread/6508-frank-gordon-s-lattice-energy-converter-lec-replicators-workshop/?postID=168911#post168911

Liviu Popa Simil proposed LENR Electric many many years ago. The same year GEC was in Guam.

In July, 2012 he presented the following paper and slide show at the LENR International Conference:

“Roadmap to Fusion Battery – A Novel Type of Nuclear Battery and Potential Outcomes and Applications”

POST Greg Goble article -Direct conversion of LENR to Electricity. One of our occasional visitors has produced an interesting article on the work of L.P.Simil and including an interesting patent.

ABSTRACT A method and device to generate electric energy on demand by fusion or transmutation nuclear reactions produced inside a super-capacitor that uses inter-atomic field’s particularities obtained inside nano-structures, by using temperature, density and electric fields in order to modify nuclear entanglement and quantum non-localities particularities in order to…

He's been working under a DoD contract developing a novel plasma based transformer and a few other things since then. Nothing in cold fusion, LENR or CMNS, that I could find, till now. His recent (2021) works are perhaps relevant to advanced LEC concepts. Also his 2012 works...

direct nuclear energy conversion into electricity, that are resembling a supercapacitor, charged by the moving nuclear particles, and discharges delivering electricity,

Engineered Micro-Nano-Nuclear Materials" Energy and Power Engineering, 2021, 13, 65-74

(PDF) Nuclear Power Renaissance Based on Engineered Micro-Nano-Nuclear Materials PDF | On Jan 1, 2021, Liviu Popa-Simil published Nuclear Power Renaissance Based on Engineered Micro-Nano-Nuclear Materials | Find, read and cite all the… www.researchgate.net

(2021) Nuclear Power Renaissance Based on Engineered Micro-Nano-Nuclear Materials.

to many drawback factors, as economics, safety, controllability and response time, security and waste management, which all together act as a deterrent to new reactor construction. If the present trend is followed, together with aging of many nuclear plants, by 2040 there will remain less than half of the actual reactors in operation, representing an accelerated decay of the industry. The idea of renaissance of nuclear power is more frequent, but this is not possible without the use of novel materials, based on nano-engineered structures. It is well known that Damascus swords were not possible without the use of Damascus steel, and so the next nuclear technology is not possible without the use of novel micro-nano nuclear materials, which finally dictates the performances of the nuclear structures built with them. As a first approach to modern technology, since 1980s, five types of nuclear materials, able to bring a leap forward in nuclear technology have been identified and studied, which are:

1) Micro-hetero structures able to deal with fission products, that use fission reaction kinematics to self-separate fission products from the nuclear

fuel, generically called “Cer-Liq-Mesh”, because simply it consists of a ceramic material stabilized on an elastic mesh or felt, immersed into a drain liquid. This improves the radiation damage, fuel burnup, fission products separation, and specific power density.

are using the nano-cluster specific mechanisms to accelerate separation of the transmutation products and place them into a drain liquid, which improves

direct nuclear energy conversion into electricity, that are resembling a supercapacitor, charged by the moving nuclear particles, and discharges delivering electricity,

...where the structure is made of repetitive conductive and insulating layers, generically known as “CIci”, some of the variants creating hyperbolic metamaterials, that may deliver electricity and radiation. Using these structures, one may eliminate the thermos-mechanical stage from the actual nuclear-thermo-mechano-electric energy conversion cycle, reducing it at nuclear-electric only and reducing the size of nuclear-electric plant by 90%, creating a fission battery.

4) Radiation damage self-repairing materials made of a “fractal”, multi-material interlaced structure that maintains its properties constant independent of radiation dose.

These materials will be used for cladding and structures allowing a near-perfect

[PDF] THE APPLICATIONS OF MICRO-NANO-CER-LIQ MATERIALS IN NUCLEAR POWER | Semantic Scholar Modern nuclear fuels exploit the unique features of nano-structures. With proper engineering of fuel micro-nano-structure, fission products can, in principle,… www.semanticscholar.org

There are methods. The thermoelectric effect is well known, which converts heat radiation into electricity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_effect

There are several projects aiming to increase this efficiency.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13545-nanomaterial-turns-radiation-directly-into-electricity/#ixzz7HOvCY4mS

Nanomaterial turns radiation directly into electricity
TECHNOLOGY 27 March 2008
By Phil Mckenna

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Materials that directly convert radiation into electricity could produce a new era of spacecraft and even Earth-based vehicles powered by high-powered nuclear batteries, say US researchers.

Electricity is usually made using nuclear power by heating steam to rotate turbines that generate electricity.

But beginning in the 1960s, the US and Soviet Union used thermoelectric materials that convert heat into electricity to power spacecraft using nuclear fission or decaying radioactive material. The Pioneer missions were among those using the latter, “nuclear battery” approach.

Dispensing with the steam and turbines makes those systems smaller and less complicated. But thermoelectric materials have very low efficiency. Now US researchers say they have developed highly efficient materials that can convert the radiation, not heat, from nuclear materials and reactions into electricity.

Power boost
Liviu Popa-Simil, former Los Alamos National Laboratory nuclear engineer and founder of private research and development company LAVM and Claudiu Muntele, of Alabama A&M University, US, say transforming the energy of radioactive particles into electricity is more effective.

The materials they are testing would extract up to 20 times more power from radioactive decay than thermoelectric materials, they calculate.

Tests of layered tiles of carbon nanotubes packed with gold and surrounded by lithium hydride are under way. Radioactive particles that slam into the gold push out a shower of high-energy electrons. They pass through carbon nanotubes and pass into the lithium hydride from where they move into electrodes, allowing current to flow.

“You load the material with nuclear energy and unload an electric current,” says Popa-Simil.

Space probes
The tiles would be best used to create electricity using a radioactive material, says Popa-Simil, because they could be embedded directly where radiation is greatest. But they could also harvest power directly from a fission reactor’s radiation.

Devices based on the material could be small enough to power anything from interplanetary probes to aircraft and land vehicles, he adds.

“I believe this work is innovative and could have a significant impact on the future of nuclear power,” says David Poston, of the US Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. However perfecting new nuclear technologies requires years of development, he adds.

Popa-Simil agrees, saying it will be at least a decade before final designs of the radiation-to-electricity concept are built.

A paper on the new nuclear power materials was presented on 25 March, at the Materials Research Society Spring Meeting 2008 , San Francisco, California, US.

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