Researchers build up an idea of a hybrid thorium reactor
Russian researchers have proposed an idea of a thorium hybrid reactor that acquires extra neutrons utilizing high-temperature plasma held in a long magnetic trap. This project was applied in close collaboration between Tomsk Polytechnic University, All-Russian Scientific Research Institute Of Technical Physics (VNIITF), and Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of SB RAS. The proposed thorium hybrid reactor is recognized from the present nuclear reactors by moderate power, relatively compact size, high operational security, and a low level of radioactive waste.
"At the initial stage, we get relatively cold plasma using special plasma guns. We retain the amount by deuterium gas injection. The injected neutral beams with particle energy of 100 keV into this plasma generate the high-energy...