Gas fueled reactor

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A gas nuclear reactor is a nuclear reactor, with which the nuclear fuel in gaseous form is present. Because of large operating risks such a reactor up to now beyond the test stage, although with its assistance interplanetary flights would be problem-free possible and would be possible during the generation of current a good efficiency.

[edit] Gas nuclear reactor for spacecraft

the fuel evaporated by its self-heat to gas is flowed around by liquid hydrogen, whereby the gas core is prevented by magnetic fields similarly as with the fusion reactor from the Auseinanderfliessen. With such an arrangement, which should be operated for reasons of the radioactive contamination of the environment only in space, very high flow-out rates can be obtained.

[edit] Gas nuclear reactor for the energy production

a container, on whose exterior a coil tapes is, is filled with gaseous uranium hexafluoride, whose uranium is enriched. The arrangement is filled to scarce to critical measures. In a place the uranium hexafluoride is so strongly compressed by (for example by a bang cap) produced a pressure wave that a nuclear chain reaction comes. Thereby develops here an enormous heat, which leads to the expansion of the uranium hexafluoride. Since this cannot escape, it comes in other places to compressions, at which a nuclear chain reaction comes again. The result is a plasma wave moving by the container. This is surrounded by magnetic fields, which induce a tension in the coil rolled up on the container. The efficiency of this arrangement amounts to approx. 20 per cent.

With the process an enormous heat develops, why the container with the uranium hexafluoride and the coil must be flowed around by a cooling agent. With the cooling agent heated up still another conventional thermal generation of current with an efficiency can be accomplished by 35%, similarly as in today's nuclear power stations, so that with this arrangement an efficiency of 55% would be possible.

However there are enormous problems with corrosions during this arrangement, there uranium hexafluoride is chemically very reactive and it gives also enormous safety problems.

Until today still no reactor was built according to this pattern.