Thanks ckilmer.
The Strange History of Fusion
and the Science of Wishful Thinking
by Charles Seife
Posted on 07/12/2015 5:15:54 PM PDT by ckilmer
Future aircraft could be powered by lasers and nuclear explosions if Boeing has its way.
The aerospace firm claims a new-type of engine could produce energy-efficient thrust by firing lasers at radioactive material, such as deuterium and tritium.
The technology could mean that planes and spaceships will require only a fraction of the power to operate, according to a recent patent filed by the company.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
waco: all neutrons should be shot on sight
“You made a buffoon of yourself.”
What about my technical explanation do you not agree with?
“I laid out the extraction unit at LRL.”
I checked your recent posts and didn’t see it. Can you point me to it?
“I laid out the extraction unit at LRL”
My first reading was that you had laid it out in a post. Now I read that you physically laid it out. If so, please cite the type of filters used to filter out the tritium.
Know what you mean, but this is only the difference between the additional yield provided by fission of the secondary tamper, not a deliberate scattering of material.
I ain't a know it all, but am a serious student.
“No, go back and read up on the difference between the clean and dirty versions of some of the classic bombs like the Mk-41.”
Small and large nuclear weapons were made in varying degrees of dirtiness.
Battle weapons were made ‘clean’ so that they would kill but field could be occupied after detonation. At least in theory.
Battle weapons were made ‘clean’ so that they would kill but field could be occupied after detonation. At least in theory.
No desire to get into a pissing contest with you, seen enough of your posts. This is what you posted:
"A dirty bomb is a non-nuclear explosive wrapped with dirty fission fragments obtained from a nuclear reactor."
Stick to it or drop it, I have no tolerance for those who want to move the goalposts after a mistake.
“No desire to get into a pissing contest with you, seen enough of your posts”
What pissing contest. I was agreeing with you!
That's TexasGator for ya.
He's pretty good at it.
Thanks ckilmer.
The Strange History of Fusion
and the Science of Wishful Thinking
by Charles Seife
You heard it in “Footfall”, by Niven and Pournelle, where we launched spaceships using very carefully timed nuclear explosions.
Good info
The molecules have different densities.
Centrifugal separation is all that is needed, and all that is done.
The glass beads contain the water that contains a high concentration of the heavy isotopes.
This is not new technology. It was developed in the private laboratory of the late Kip M. Segal, in Ann Arbor Michigan, in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s using mostly cheap military surplus hardware.
Using said junk hardware, Kip achieved more than the national laboratories have with billions, or perhaps a trillion, in public funds.
Laser compression was 100% the product of the genius of Kip Segal.
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Where are the dilithium crystals?
Nah, but I might read that some day.
Loosely put, it is the description of the secondary of a two stage thermonuke. A lot more to it than that, but D-T encased in a radiation shield of U-238 or lead is the basis of the secondary of the classic Teller-Ulam device.
Thanks for mentioning Kip, I had not ever heard of him before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Siegel
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Its not nice to make fools of the US government!
And they have the nerve to say that the US is based in free enterprise...
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