Methods and systems for producing fissile material from fertile feedstock

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9852823
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12749688

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A method for generating a fissile material is described. The method includes positioning a fertile, non-fissile material within outer space, the position within an area of proton or other high energy particle radiation, rather naturally or artificially occurring, allowing the high energy particle radiation to impinge the fertile but non-fissile material over a time, the time based on amount of high energy particle radiation at the position, such that the non-fissile material gradually transmutes into a fissile material due to the impingement, and deploying the fissile material within a spacecraft.

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  • THE BOEING COMPANY

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Benac, John Wilson Houston, US 1 0

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