Nano-structures materials for Energy Direct Conversion and Fuel Breeding

Abstract

Almost all the modern applications (e.g. terrestrial and space electric power production, naval, underwater and railroad propulsion and auxiliary power for isolated regions) require a compact-high-power electricity source. One solution to reduce the greenhouse emissions and delay the catastrophic events occurrences may be the development of massive nuclear power. More, there is a concern that the modern civilization may exhaust the oil based energy resource within few decades. Thus, it is better to find other sources of energy that can replace the Carbon based energy resources. The actual basic conceptions in nuclear reactors are at the base of bottleneck in enhancements. The actual nuclear reactors look like high security prisons applied to fission products. It is not about release of the fission products, but to give them the possibility to acquire stabile conditions outside the hot zones, in exchange for advantages – possibility of enhancing the nuclear technology in power production. Three main developments are possible by accommodating the materials and structures with the phenomenon of interest like the high temperature fission products free and direct conversion nuclear reactors, cleaner nuclear fuel breeding and the fusion energy harvesting.