Abstract
A radiation source for detecting specific chemicals at several meter distances even behind walls, car doors or other barriers is the application of Million electron Volts (MeV) neutrons from nuclear fusion reactions at such low intensities to avoid any danger for human bodies. The chemical analysis consists in the neutron activation of nuclei emitting then gamma radiation of lines very specific for the excited nuclei. The neutron generation by the Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) had been developed to a level where very low cost neutron generators in mass production may be developed with a power supply from a normal AC plug-in or a battery. For specific chemicals e.g. the ratio of nitrogen against other elements used in all explosives, the selection of few specific gamma lines for the detectors may be of sufficiently low cost in the case of mass production.
Highlights
It is a long desire how to detect explosives in suicide belts of passengers or the larger amount of explosives in cars passing street corners by using a low cost mass-produced detection system
For reducing the analysis to few elements only, e.g. the nitrogen against another to detect chemical explosives carried around or packed in motor cars at distances up to ten and more meters, a simplified version of the gamma line detectors has to be developed for low cost mass production and a very low cost Million electron Volts (MeV) neutron source is needed
A further option is the inertial electrostatic confinement, Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC), about which the following achievements are summarized in the following with the prospects for a development of the neutron source for low cost mass production
Summary
It is a long desire how to detect explosives in suicide belts of passengers or the larger amount of explosives in cars passing street corners by using a low cost mass-produced detection system. For reducing the analysis to few elements only, e.g. the nitrogen against another to detect chemical explosives (or fertilizers) carried around or packed in motor cars at distances up to ten and more meters, a simplified version of the gamma line detectors has to be developed for low cost mass production and a very low cost MeV neutron source is needed. The level of neutron production in continuous or pulsed operation of the neutron can be left at such low level that no danger for human bodies is implied The level of these reactions is so low that – regrettably – any exothermic fusion energy production is excluded by numerous orders of magnitude. A further option is the inertial electrostatic confinement, IEC, about which the following achievements are summarized in the following with the prospects for a development of the neutron source for low cost mass production. An advantage of these developments is given from the possible application of the IEC for a very safe nuclear fission reactor[1] where based on developments discussed by Dautray and Rubbia as competition by IEC[2,3,4], the present research reactor Garching II could have used the fast switching and unlimited operated IEC with the same neutron fluxes as the very slow switched and frequently regenerated Cf 251 neutron source
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