Talk:Rubbia reactor

Someone needs to merge this article with Energy amplifier and then redirect this article to the energy amplifier one. I may do it myself one day when I can get around to it.

Umm, I could be mistaken here, but I don't think Rubbia's intention was to use a neutron beam. From the external link:

Italian Nobel physics laureate Carlos Rubbia, a former director of one of the world's leading nuclear physics labs, CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research.

An ADS reactor is sub-critical, which means it needs help to get the thorium to react. To do this, a particle accelerator fires protons at a lead target. When struck by high-energy protons the lead, called a spallation target, releases neutrons that collide with nuclei in the thorium fuel, which begins the fuel cycle that ends in the fission of U-233.

I'm not really sure if a synchrotron can accelerate neutrons either. All accelerator driven subcritical systems that I've heard of are proton or electron accelerators. If someone had suggested to use a neutron accelerator (still not sure if this exists) then it would be notable, but right now I'm thinking that this article is just plain wrong. theanphibian 07:12, 7 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]