2025/01/11 by D. Akturk, Akturk, D., Ali Can Canbay +6
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Materials Science · Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics · #Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph) #Chemical Reactions and Isotopes #Cold Fusion and Nuclear Reactions #FOS: Physical sciences #Fusion materials and technologies #Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2501.12401
openalex publication_date 2025/01/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Fossil fuels, which meet most of humanity's energy needs, cause climate change due to their high carbon emissions. There are two types of energy sources that can replace fossil fuels: renewable and nuclear. Nuclear energy sources are more advantageous in terms of efficiency and sustainability. The use of Thorium as nuclear fuel in fusion reactors will contribute to the reduction of radioactive waste, due to the much lower production of transuranics. Fusion reactors, which are considered promising, are still in the R&D phase. In this respect, hybrid fusion-fission reactors seem more promising and the recently proposed combination of muon-catalyzed DD fusion with a cascade thorium reactor is worthy of appreciation. In this study, we show that using the DD collider instead of muonic fusion has significant advantages.