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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 1999
Filed:
Jul. 01, 1991
Han S Uhm, Potomac, MD (US);
Woodrow W Lee, Potomac, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A steady-state source of neutrons is produced within an electrically grounded and temperature controlled chamber confining tritium or deuterium plasma at a predetermined density to effect implantation of ions in the surface of a palladium target rod coated with diffusion barrier material and immersed in such plasma. The rod is enriched with a high concentration of deuterium atoms after a prolonged plasma ion implantation. Collision of the deuterium atoms in the target by impinging ions of the plasma initiates fusion reactions causing emission of neutrons during negative voltage pulses applied to the rod through a high power modulator. The neutrons are so generated at a relatively high dose rate under optimized process conditions.