Question by Chris: Direct Electricity from a fission power plant?
Instead of using a steam turbine to generate power in a nuclear reactor. Why not ionize the fission fuel, then the fission fragments that get spit out after a fission reaction could be turned directly into electrical energy at about 80% efficiency. I’ve heard that this would be the best way to extract energy from the proton-boron 11 fusion reaction, so why not try something like this for fission.
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Answer by David D
Sounds wacky. The amount of electrical energy in the ionized fragments is minuscule compared to the energy released in the form of gamma rays and neutron recoil energy.
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