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- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion abstract "Antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion is a variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon the injection of antimatter into a mass of nuclear fuel which normally would not be useful in propulsion. The anti-protons used to start the reaction are consumed, so it is a misnomer to refer to them as a catalyst.Traditional nuclear pulse propulsion has the downside that the minimum size of the engine is defined by the minimum size of the nuclear bombs used to create thrust. With conventional technologies nuclear explosives can scale down to about 1/100 kiloton (10 tons, 42 GJ; W54), but making them smaller seems difficult. Large nuclear explosive charges require a heavy structure for the spacecraft, and a very large (and heavy) pusher-plate assembly. Small nuclear explosives are believed to stop shrinking in overall size and required fissile nuclear materials at a weight of around 25 kilograms, so smaller pulse units are much more expensive per delivered unit energy, and much less mass efficient than larger ones. By injecting a small amount of antimatter into a subcritical mass of fuel (typically plutonium or uranium) fission of the fuel can be forced. An anti-proton has a negative electric charge just like an electron, and can be captured in a similar way by a positively charged atomic nucleus. The initial configuration, however, is not stable and radiates energy as gamma rays. As a consequence, the anti-proton moves closer and closer to the nucleus until they eventually touch, at which point the anti-proton and a proton are both annihilated. This reaction releases a tremendous amount of energy, of which some is released as gamma rays and some is transferred as kinetic energy to the nucleus, causing it to explode. The resulting shower of neutrons can cause the surrounding fuel to undergo rapid fission or even nuclear fusion.The lower limit of the device size is determined by anti-proton handling issues and fission reaction requirements; as such, unlike either the Project Orion-type propulsion system, which requires large numbers of nuclear explosive charges, or the various anti-matter drives, which require impossibly expensive amounts of antimatter, antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion has intrinsic advantages.A conceptual design of a thermonuclear explosive physics package, is one in which the primary mass of plutonium, usually necessary for the ignition in a conventional Teller-Ulam thermonuclear explosion, is replaced by one microgram of antihydrogen. In this theoretical design, the antimatter is helium cooled and magnetically levitated in the center of the device, in the form of a pellet a tenth of a mm in diameter, a position analogous to the primary fission core in the layer cake/Sloika design). As the antimatter must remain away from ordinary matter until the desired moment of the explosion, the central pellet must be isolated from the surrounding hollow sphere of 100 grams of thermonuclear fuel. During and after the implosive compression by the high explosive lenses, the fusion fuel comes into contact with the antihydrogen. Annihilation reactions, which would start soon after the Penning trap is destroyed, is to provide the energy to begin the nuclear fusion in the thermonuclear fuel. If the chosen degree of compression is high, a device with increased explosive/propulsive effects is obtained, and if it is low, that is, the fuel is not at high density, a considerable number of neutrons will escape the device, and a neutron bomb forms. In both cases the electromagnetic pulse effect and the radioactive fallout are substantially lower than that of a conventional fission or Teller-Ulam device of the same yield, approximately 1 kt.".
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- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink AIMStar.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Antihydrogen.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Antimatter.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Antimatter_rocket.
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- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Catalysis.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fusion_power.
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- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Critical_mass.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Electric_charge.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Electromagnetic_pulse.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Electron.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Explosive_material.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Gamma_ray.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink ICAN-II.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Implosion_(mechanical_process).
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Inertial_confinement_fusion.
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- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Lawrence_Livermore_National_Laboratory.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Microgram.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Neutron.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Neutron_bomb.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_fallout.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_fission.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_fusion.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_pulse_propulsion.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_weapon.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_weapon_design.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Penning_trap.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania_State_University.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Plutonium.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Proton.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Thermonuclear_weapon.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink Uranium.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLink W54.
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- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLinkText "Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion".
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLinkText "antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion".
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wikiPageWikiLinkText "catalyze a fission/fusion reaction".
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- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion subject Category:Fusion_power.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion subject Category:Nuclear_spacecraft_propulsion.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion hypernym Variation.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion type Food.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion type Physic.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion comment "Antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion is a variation of nuclear pulse propulsion based upon the injection of antimatter into a mass of nuclear fuel which normally would not be useful in propulsion. The anti-protons used to start the reaction are consumed, so it is a misnomer to refer to them as a catalyst.Traditional nuclear pulse propulsion has the downside that the minimum size of the engine is defined by the minimum size of the nuclear bombs used to create thrust.".
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion label "Antimatter-catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion".
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion sameAs Q4774927.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion sameAs Antimaterijalno_kataliziran_nuklearni_pulsni_pogon.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion sameAs m.011y9h.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion sameAs Q4774927.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion wasDerivedFrom Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion?oldid=700524537.
- Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion isPrimaryTopicOf Antimatter-catalyzed_nuclear_pulse_propulsion.