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Reference for Explosion Welding:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0955799724000031
The rise of technology and industry has seen the consumption of energy to be at an all time high. Along with the growth of population, the demand for more effective and renewable energy sources intensifies. At the peak of all of this, nuclear engineering has risen to the top for the best solution to this energy problem.
One of the most prominent solutions for harvesting nuclear energy is through explosion welding. Explosion Welding is fusion at very high velocities through the use of chemical explosives (Song et.al, 2024). This method is significant because it creates sturdy joints between dissimilar metals. With traditional welding, its components are usually metals that have similar properties. However, with explosion welding, the high initial acceleration of the two components at each other can bypass the properties of metal and join two different metals together. As a result, the new metal has combined properties of the original two metals that can lead to more conductivity, strength, and durability. For example, explosion welding is most commonly used to join materials like stainless steel to copper (Blazynski, 1983). The product is a component that has thermal conductivity and structural stability. Explosion welding offers a solution to the difficulty of joining metals with different properties or melting points.
Another potential solution for harnessing nuclear energy is through inertial confinement fusion (ICF). ICF is a fusion energy process that rapidly compresses and heats small fuel pellets containing isotopes of hydrogen: deuterium and tritium (Wikimedia Foundation, 2024). When energy is put into the fuel pellets, the result is shock wave explosions. With enough shock waves, the fuel pellets combine to form helium, and a free neutron and energy is released. ICF works because the components for it to work are abundant in nature and resources are readily available.
Song, X., Yang, Y., Cheng, Y., Wang, Y., & Zheng, H. (2024, January 8). Study on copper-stainless steel explosive welding for nuclear fusion by generalized interpolated material point method and experiments. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements.
Blazynski, T. Z. Explosion Welding of Metals and Its Applications. London: Applied Science Publishers, 1983.
Wikimedia Foundation. (2024, September 4). Inertial confinement fusion. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_confinement_fusion
Fission barriers and probabilities of spontaneous fission for elements with Z ≥ 100:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037594741500130X