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To: DiogenesLamp

dear diogenes,

Please remember:
A thermonuclear bomb is a fission/fusion reaction, with no real containment vessel.


45 posted on 02/10/2016 6:22:20 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Terry L Smith
Please remember: A thermonuclear bomb is a fission/fusion reaction, with no real containment vessel.

Inertial containment. Long enough to let the reaction build up to a substantial energy release.

Nobody is going to stuff that much fuel into a reactor all at once, and even if they tried, it would cause a breach in containment before it could ever work up to a bomb grade energy release.

48 posted on 02/11/2016 7:58:53 AM PST by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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