Patent: A hybrid fusion fast fission reactor

US Patent Office ^ | Lawrence Forsley

[Red Badger]

ConFUSION over FISSION.........................

[Kevmo]

Typo alert

That article is about possible 3-body nuke FUSION at the Earth’s core.

[Wonder Warthog]

"On a related subject, scientists now believe the Earth’s core heat comes from nuclear fission of radioactive elements..............."

Not fission, the article is actually talking about "lattice confinement fusion" (aka "cold fusion".

From the article abstract:

" Here we postulate that the generation of heat is the result of three-body nuclear fusion of deuterons confined in hexagonal FeDx core-centre crystals; the reaction rate is enhanced by the combined attraction effects of high-pressure (~364 GPa) and high-temperature (~5700 K) and by the physical catalysis of neutral pions: 2D + 2D + 2D → 21H + 4He + 2  + 20.85 MeV.

[Red Badger]

Fission.. Fusion.... what’s a vowel here or there?......................

[Wonder Warthog]

LOL....sometimes critical...

[Moltke]

True, it’s a patent app, not a granted patent AFAICT

Here's how you tell at a glance: Publication number ends with an "A" = application. Ends with a "B" = granted patent.