A. A. Goverdovskii, V. S. Imshennik, V. P. Smirnov, “On the prospects of bubble cavitation-induced fusion”, UFN, 2013, Volume 183, Number 4,Pages <nobr>445

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On the prospects of bubble cavitation-induced fusion

A. A. Goverdovskii^a, V. S. Imshennik^b, V. P. Smirnov^c

^a State Scientific Centre of the Russian Federation ``Leypunskii Institute for Physics and Power Engineering''
^b Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
^c Joint Institute for High Temperatures, Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract: Experimental and theoretical work on cavitation-induced fusion reactions in bubbles is critically analyzed. It is shown that the existing data are internally inconsistent. The yield of hypothetical thermonuclear neutrons is found to be at least three orders of magnitude overestimated and therefore inconsistent with the tritium yield observed. A simple estimate shows that any power system using the principle discussed is unfeasible.

Keywords: Fusion energy, cavitation bubbles.

PACS: 28.90.+i, 52.90.+z, 78.60.Mq

Received: February 14, 2013
Accepted: February 20, 2013

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.0183.201304k.0445