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Self-subsidizing Mercury Remediation with Fusion Reactors
J. F. Parisi, J. Azad
Fusion reactors can permanently remediate mercury by using it as a neutron multiplier: each (n,2n) reaction reduces the neutron number towards Hg which quickly decays int…
Isotope Production in Muon-Catalyzed-Fusion Systems
J. F. Parisi, A. Rutkowski
Producing valuable isotopes with high-flux high-energy neutrons generated by muon-catalyzed fusion (CF) reactions could substantially improve the economic prospects for muon-cat…
Isotope Production in Fusion Systems
J. F. Parisi, J. A. Schwartz, S. E. Wurzel +2
Fusion systems producing isotopes via neutron-driven transmutation can achieve economic viability well before reaching energy breakeven. Incorporating carefully selected feedstock…
Persistence of Deuterium and Tritium Nuclear Spin-Polarization in Presence of High-Frequency Plasma Waves
J. W. S. Cook, H. Ali, J. F. Parisi +2
We present first-principles numerical calculations of the depolarization rate of spin-polarized deuterium and tritium nuclei in realistic tokamak plasmas, driven by resonant intera…
Scalable Chrysopoeia via Reactions Driven by Deuterium-Tritium Fusion Neutrons
Adam Rutkowski, Jake Harter, Jason Parisi
A scalable approach for chrysopoeia - the transmutation of base metals into gold - has been pursued for millennia. While there have been small-scale demonstrations in particle acce…
Revisiting Fusion in D-He Plasmas With Spin-Polarized Fuel
J. F. Parisi, A. Diallo, S. Meschini
Spin-polarized fuel (SPF) is recognized for enhancing fusion reactivity, but it could provide other advantages particularly relevant to advanced fusion fuels. In this work, we calc…