FIELD: nuclear physics.
SUBSTANCE: invention relates to nuclear engineering and solves the problem of producing nuclear fuel which provides simultaneous flow of fission reactions and nuclear fusion and energy generation and fusion and fission neutrons in a nuclear reactor core. The hydride of a fissile element contains heavy isotopes of deuterium and tritium preferably in equal and maximum concentrations, for example UD1.5T1.5. The method of producing hydride fuel for a nuclear reactor involves placing fissile material in metallic state into a reaction volume, heating it and keeping it in a dynamic vacuum at temperature above the temperature at which the fission material and the hydrogenating component begin to react, carrying out the hydrogenation process by feeding a hydrogenating component into the reaction volume and holding at hydrogenation temperature of the fission material and controlling pressure, and subsequent cooling. The hydrogenating components used are deuterium and tritium, with deuterium and tritium fed successively, and the hydrogenation process carried out preferably until equal and maximum concentrations of hydrogenating components are achieved.
EFFECT: production of nuclear fuel reactor, use of which provides near-optimal conditions for simultaneous flow of nuclear fission and fusion reactions in nuclear reactor cores.
10 cl, 1 dwg, 1 tbl
