Hi:
Neutron-neutron fusion is an example of nuclear fusion because neutrons
are nucleons. Is it possible to solve the energy crisis using
neutron-neutron fusion? Can this fusion be used to generated sufficient
amounts of power? One advantage to neutron-neutron fusion over H-H
fusion is that, neutrons don't have charge. Unlike protons which are
positively charged and repel each other, neutrons are neutral so it
shouldn't require nearly as much energy to fuse neutrons as to fuse protons.
I've searched on other internet about neutron-neutron fusion, however, I
haven't received anything about its use for energy. All that show up are
neutron beams. Why?
Happy Holidays,
Radium
Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to reply] - 31 Dec 2007 09:32 GMT
> Neutron-neutron fusion is an example of nuclear fusion because neutrons
> are nucleons. Is it possible to solve the energy crisis using
> neutron-neutron fusion? Can this fusion be used to generated sufficient
> amounts of power?
Alas, the dineutron isn't stable, so trying to form it via fusion,
via the reaction
n + n --> 2n
would not be an energy *source* (the reaction *absorbs* energy). :(

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