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scanning or a broadband fiber laser using the laser-induced fluorescence to monitor elemental composition of the transmutation machine in real time. Gamma monitoring may be passive and active: passive gammas are detected whenever fission event occurs thus giving information on the fissioning TRU isotopes, while active gammas used for isotopic monitoring are accomplished through externally injecting gamma beams and detecting the signature using the nuclear resonance fluorescence, etc. Subcritical operation dictates a safety against melt down events by turning off the externally laser-driven neutrons. Lastly, all these components – molten salt, laser and gamma monitoring, subcritical operation – may be controlled, monitored, and predict system’s behavior by the AI in real time.
Laser driven neutron sources are distributed over many tanks and areas of tanks to prevent a localized super-heating and void creation. Furthermore, the transmutation machine may be split into chambers whereas neutrons can propagate but molten salt and dissolved TRU cannot. Monitoring, FP removal, and refueling of each chamber may be performed by AI, which monitors adjacent chambers to maintain for the entire system. The first wall and walls of the chambers may be composed of carbon based material, e.g. diamond. To protect the first wall from the molten salt, TRU and FPs interaction and diffusion an adjacent layer of solidified salt may be formed by actively cooling the wall. In case of malfunction a frozen plug on the bottom of machine should melt, dumping the inventory of the transmutation machine into a dump tank lined with boron or other materials with a high neutron capture cross section.
The transmutator technology can be applied to the generation of a synthetic fuel to become carbon-negative. In the following example the synthetic fuel ( - methane) may be generated via reaction (Sabatier reaction) requiring 200-400 and the presence of a catalyst,