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Regulatinos are political, and so covered. The U.S. Navy I'd imagine has had a similar, if not better record than the Russians. Modern reactors find it very hard to go boom, anyway. You'll either be leaking coolant, or will have a radioactive pile of junk at the bottom. Nuclear power for commercial ...

Nuclear power is cheaper than oil or coal. With the proven savings and safety of marine nuclear power, it should be a no-brainer. Too many people have cried wolf about the hazards, and there are still far too many Chicken Littles that will go paranoid over stupid things. It's not done because it's t...

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A tiny handful have been made. Too many stupid NIMBYs, I suppose.

http://gizmodo.com/5206539/mass-production-planned-for-hal-exoskeleton-your-personal-iron-man-conversion-to-cost-4200#viewcomments I've been following this for a good while, I think it provides much more potential for many purposes. For simple industrial work, an easy master slave system could make ...

PB11. The weight of the boron is rather inconsequential, and the neutron flux is much smaller, meaning much less shielding, which is consequential weight. Of other interest are the He3 reactions, which would allow easier scavenging of fuel. Not sure how much boron is out there, but we know that ther...

There's still the problem that people are paranoid about devices designed and overengineered to not fall apart falling apart and spraying them with radioactive stuff. Extra-atmospheric, fission rockets aren't that big of a deal, and there's even designs that would work quite well inside the atmosphe...

Take a closer look at your CO2/temp graphs. One of the most convincing things I saw was the fact that CO2 trails temperature . You can even see this on Al Gore's "hockey stick" graph, though it's not very clear. There are quite a few correlations with solar output too. Most of these indicate that th...

I believe there was also some hope that with work, the system could be shrunk after they get it to work, and eventually get small enough to put in a truck.

Out the starting gate though, a 35 foot room or so would be needed just for the reactor.

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Al has some other resources on algae, but I didn't bother looking them up, the real thing with algae is getting the oil out.

The di-lithium crystals I understand are used in some way to moderate the antimatter reaction. I don't know if they're used for the matter side, or what, but they're not used for fusion.

I'm guessing that the problem with the phalanx system is that the radars track the target and the stream of bullets and bring them together in an itegratting fashion. That's hard to do with a very short engagement time. I don't think even a government contractor would try such a convoluted mechanis...

The answers to those questions, Simon, are "a whole heck of a lot better than ethanol." Algae fuels promise to actually have a break even, once the technical issues are worked out.

Early bombs were called fission-fusion-fission bombs, because they worked that way. The U-238 wasn't transmuted, it was directly fissioned by the different kind of neutron put out by the fusion reaction--I can't remember how exactly all that worked. modern "clean" weapons place a greater focus on th...

That's what I figured for the particle systems, I'm surprised it takes that little for gamma rays. They have a reputation, probably not entirely deserved.

This is one of the preferred ways to do renewable fuels. It has a high enough yield to be positive, and does not require massive processing. It'll be perfect when they figure out a way to let it sit in a tank and skim the oil off the top.