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Neutron gun

Anonymous Sat 19 Feb 23:20:09 2022 No.14247608 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14247693 >>14247834 >>14247872

I'm a beginner nuclear physics. I wanted to know if you can really make a somewhat effective neutron gun from americium, radium and aluminum foil. It seems to me that the particles would also have to be accelerated before hitting the foil somehow but idk if this is true.

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Anonymous Sat 19 Feb 2022 23:39:00 No.14247693 Report

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>>14247608
Im a beginner in...*
Fuck me, keep forgetting to write necessary words in the heat of passion

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Anonymous Sat 19 Feb 2022 23:45:40 No.14247708 Report

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I saw some article about vaporizing specially designed plastic threads to produce a fusion reaction. It's a net loss of energy, but the point was to apply it in other ways like medical imaging. You could probably adapt the idea to produce neutrons

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Anonymous Sat 19 Feb 2022 23:57:09 No.14247735 Report

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>>14247708
Im pretty sure this would the least efficient way to produce neutrons. Got a link perhaps?

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Anonymous Sun 20 Feb 2022 00:21:49 No.14247834 Report

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>>14247608
Why tho?

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Anonymous Sun 20 Feb 2022 00:31:18 No.14247861 Report

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What do you mean neutron gun?
You can get a LOT of neutrons from AmBe, PuBe, etc. sources but the spectrum will be a fission spectrum.
You can get quasi monoenergetic but low energy (< 100 keV) using Li mixed with Boron (and an accelerator voltage).
You can get monoenergetic using DD or DT fusion reactions but you would need an accelerator. A proton telescope could work if you fix the observation angle but you'd need an accelerating potential again and the efficiency would be ass.

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Anonymous Sun 20 Feb 2022 00:36:17 No.14247872 Report

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>>14247608
Why play with penny ante crap, anon? Play with the big boys.
Get a certain mass of Pu-239 shaped into a hollow sphere surrounded by carefully arranged explosives and waveshaper. With the right geometry two detonators is sufficient. Place this thing we'll call a primary at one end of a thing we'll call a radiation channel made of high-Z thin foils. At the other end place a cylindrical rod of U-235 surrounded by Li-D contained by a thing made of high-Z material we'll call the pusher. We'll call this the secondary.
Fire the detonators and about a microsecond later you will have a lot of 14.7 MeV neutrons and other stuff.

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Anonymous Sun 20 Feb 2022 00:44:44 No.14247893 Report

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>>14247735
Nah. I forgot to mention that they used a laser to vaporize the plastic. The advantage would be that you might need less shielding than if you were carrying something radioactive in a shutterbox

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Anonymous Sun 20 Feb 2022 07:43:16 No.14248670 Report

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Kek. If I wanted to make a nuke the best I could do is a u235 block dropper onto another u235 block and if i were generous i would also add rdx as an accelerator. This process would however require you to have certain mods installed, minecraft doesn't have such things in the vanilla game

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