The Department of Energy (DOE) Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI)
Direct Energy Conversion project has identified the fission fragment magnetic collimator
reactor (FFMCR) as a promising direct fission fragment conversion concept. The US
DOE NERI Proof-of-Principle Project at Texas A&M is focused on experimental
verification of FFMCR operation principles. The purpose of this experiment was to test
design parameters of a scaled prototype of a direct energy collector chamber of the
FFMCR. The charge collection efficiency was found using a He+ ion beam to be
approximately 88% for beam energies ranging from 20 to 80 keV. The 2.4 10^12 ± 10%
ohm resistor used in the experiment holds-up under the stress of high voltage to 40 kV.
Electric current leakage tests of the charge collection device also indicate that Teflon® is
quite sufficient as an insulator for potentials as high as 40 kV. It is suggested that the
present work be extended to determine power efficiencies and to achieve results with
higher beam energies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/1533 |
| Date | 17 February 2005 |
| Creators | Guild-Bingham, Avery A. |
| Contributors | Hart, Ron |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Thesis, text |
| Format | 560951 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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