Hi Reddit, I’m Katie Rittenhouse, Communications Director at Phoenix LLC. I’m here with a group of Phoenix engineers, including our CEO and President, to answer whatever questions you might have about near-term fusion applications, neutrons and all of their interesting uses, the current and near-term practical applications of fusion technology including our record-breaking system for medical isotope production and the Phoenix Neutron Imaging Center (one of the only commercial non-reactor neutron radiography vendors in the world), what it's like being a tech startup in Madison, and all of the engineering disciplines it takes to execute successfully on what we do!
At Phoenix, we’ve been developing our fusion technology since 2005 with the mission of applying nuclear fusion to near-term solutions for problems faced in sectors such as industrial nondestructive testing, aerospace manufacturing and R&D, energy, healthcare, and defense—all the while supporting fusion research to achieve our long-term dream of clean fusion energy for all. Our core innovation is extremely high-output, accelerator-based Deuterium-Deuterium and Deuterium-Tritium fusion neutron generators, which are strong enough to replace reactor and isotope neutron sources for applications such as medical isotope production, explosives detection and nuclear materials detection, nondestructive testing, radiation hardening and survivability testing, and more. Neutron sources have applications in a wide range of sectors including aerospace, energy, and defense manufacturing, and we’re always on the lookout for skilled engineers in these sectors to join our “nuclear family” and help us design and develop revolutionary capital equipment to serve these critical niches.
Dr. Evan Sengbusch, President: Evan holds a BS in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Iowa, as well as an MS and PhD in Medical Physics, and an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has technical experience worki
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So if a tamper/neutron reflector is designed to reflect neutrons back into the core, how are neutrons emitted from outside the core (from an external neutron generator) able to enter the core and stimulate the reaction?
I understand the accelleration of a Deuterium or Tritium nucleus into a D/T target, creating fusion and the product neutrons - but how are those neutrons collected?
Would it be theoretically possible to break the electromagnetic force of X amount of matter to create the same material that constitutes neutron stars (ultra densely packed neutrons), and place it at the center of an appropriately sized dymaxion sphere to give mass an equal weight on the surface of the sphere as on Earth? Would there be a ratio for the size of this core, the size of the dymaxion sphere, and the weight of an object of mass at its surface?
This is a very rare book that a friend of mine cannot find in stock anywhere. A PDF or a tip of a bookstore that can confirm they have it in stock would be greatly appreciated.
Hi Reddit, I'm Dr. Evan Sengbusch, President at Phoenix, LLC. I'm here with our CEO, Dr. Ross Radel, and our VP of Research & Development, Dr. Tye Gribb, to answer whatever questions you might have about nuclear engineering, neutrons and all of their interesting uses, the current and near-term practical applications of fusion technology including our record-breaking system for medical isotope production, what it's like being a tech startup in Madison, and whatever else you're curious about!
At Phoenix, we've been developing our fusion technology since 2005 with the mission of applying fusion technology to solve very real near-term problems while supporting fusion research to achieve the shared, long-term dream of clean fusion energy for all. Our core innovation is extremely high output, accelerator-based Deuterium-Deuterium and Deuterium-Tritium fusion neutron generators which are strong enough to replace reactor and isotope neutron sources for applications such as medical isotope production, explosives detection and nuclear materials detection, nondestructive testing, and more.
Evan's Bio: Evan holds a BS in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Iowa, as well as an MS and PhD in Medical Physics, and an MBA in Technology Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Evan has extensive experience with computational modeling, ion beam transport simulations, and particle accelerator design. He has also worked in the venture capital industry evaluating technologies in the physical and life sciences and has served as a consultant for several technology development firms. Evan is a past recipient of a DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship, an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and a National Institutes of Health Biotechnology Training Grant. He has technical experience working in accelerator physics at CERN, plasma physics at the University of Iowa and medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Since joining Phoenix in 2012, Evan has increased the variety and size of Phoenix's revenue sources and has dras
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