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It might still be possible to theoretically create a hybrid fission/fusion DPF like the hydrogen bomb, but it woud more than likely make the DPF a dirty radioactive powerplant rather than a clean one. In the hydrogen bomb, a plutonium bomb supplies the energy to get fusion started. Therefore, it’s not much cleaner than just plain fission.

Thorium can indeed fission with protons in place of neutrons, but it probably takes a full – fledged particle accelerator to get the required electron volts necessary to overcome the coulomb barrier.

Another possibility is photo – fission. But this requires a gamma ray that is energetic enough. But alas, I doubt if the x – rays generated by the DPF would be sufficient. This would really be nice if it could do it by photo – fission, because the radioactive fission products of thorium produced this way are so short – lived they have half – lives only minutes to hours at most.

But there is one remaining possibility, however. If a thorium nucleus absorbs an energetic alpha particle …… it can leapfrog right over the lengthly intermediary protactinium transmutation step …… going directly to unstable U236 …… and immediately fission thereafter.

However, like I already stated, it would more than likely turn the DPF into a dirty rad producer. This is because after the thorium nucleus absorbed an alpha particle and underwent fission, it would emit two or three neutrons. After continuous operation for awhile, the outer walls of the DPF chamber would become radioactive and more than likely suffer major neutron corrosion from all the neutrons absorbed by the walls.

But more than likely, it would still be difficult to make it work in helping to assist focus fusion with fission of heavy actinides like thorium, uranium, plutonium or americium in this manner. It would probably also be difficult to assist with supplemental fuel additives to the decaborane by using additives like deutrium or helium 3. I have also considered the possibility of using the blacklight reaction discovered by Randall Mills to help aid the p+B11 reaction. However, the blacklight reaction is still highly controversial in that some physicists consider it to be in contradiction to what is currently known about quantum mechanics. In the meantime, I continue looking for some other kind of additional energy producing ” uummph ! ” that might help p+B11 along.