Snecma Moteurs

Thorium Power, Inc.

Alexei Glebovich Morozov

Sergey Mikhailovich Bashkirtsev

Valentin Fedorovich Kuznetsov

Valery Vladimirovich Kevrolev

Michael H Montgomery

Olivier Secheresse

Antonina Bougrova

Fuel elements are supported by fuel assemblies configured for use in land-based nuclear reactors such as the VVER-1000. The fuel elements include a kernel having a multi-lobed profile that forms spiral ribs that include fissionable material (e.g., uranium or plutonium), a central metal displacer extending along a longitudinal axis of the kernel, and a metal cladding (e.g., zirconium and/or other refractory metals) enclosing the kernel. The fuel element may be fabricated by joint extrusion of the displacer, kernel, and cladding through a die to metallurgically bond the kernel and cladding.

Nuclear reactor (alternatives), fuel assembly of seed-blanket subassemblies for nuclear reactor (alternatives), and fuel element for fuel assembly

The closed electron drift plasma accelerator comprises an annular ionization chamber, an acceleration chamber on the same axis as the ionization chamber, an annular anode, a hollow cathode, a first DC voltage source, an annular gas manifold, a magnetic circuit, and magnetic field generators. A coaxial annular coil is placed in the cavity of the ionization chamber, is provided with bias conductive cladding connected, together with the electrically-conductive material of the inside faces of the walls of the ionization chamber, to the positive pole of a second voltage source whose negative pole is connected to the anode, and constitutes an additional magnetic field generator which, together with the other magnetic field generators, forms a magnetic field having a magnetic line of force with an 'X' point corresponding to a magnetic field zero situated between the coaxial annular coil and the anode.

Plasma accelerator with closed electron drift

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Moscow, Russia

Alexei Glebovich Morozov