4 papers
Alpha Particle Induced Collision Cascade Fusion
Sandeep Puri, Noah D'Amico, Andrew Gillespie +4
We report experimental and computational investigations of a collision-cascade mechanism to induce deuterium-deuterium (D-D) fusion. Evidence of neutron production was observed fro…
Production of Low-Density Aerogel Nuclear Fuels for Use in Fission Fragment Rockets and Novel Reactor Design
Noah D'Amico, Sandeep Puri, Ian Jones +4
Graphene hydrogels were created and loaded with uranyl nitrate or thorium nitrate and freeze-dried to produce graphene aerogel nuclear fuels. These aerogels had densities between 0…
Boron Nitride Coatings for the Enhanced Detection of Neutrons in CR-39
Noah DAmico, Sandeep Puri, Ian Jones +4
The neutron detection efficiency of Columbia Resin 39 (CR-39) nuclear track detectors was assessed for AmBe, 252Cf, and D-T (14 MeV) neutron source spectra. A boron nitride (BN) co…
Enhanced Tritium Production in Irradiated TiD2 from Collisional Fusion in the Solid-State
Andrew K. Gillespie, Cuikun Lin, Ian Jones +6
Ongoing research in new nuclear mechanisms hold the potential for beneficial developments in nuclear power cycle designs. Recent reports investigated the possibility of lattice dyn…