Eric,
Can you explain your rationale a little? Are you considering a heavy metal wire/coil plus an additional Ni fuel powder or just the heavy metal wire with a current flowing through it in H2/D2? That sounds on one hand a little like Brillouin and on the other hand a little like Langmuir.
can,
Thanks for the link to the 238U at United Nuclear. That would certainly be an interesting ingredient in the dusty plasma reactors that BobG is presently investigating. I am preparing a drawing for a dusty plasma reactor of my own. It wouldn't be very expensive to make, nor beyond my machining capability. I estimate less than $200 to build.