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- Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:16 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell and Proliferation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 42699
Let me add that since you are working with solutions that have the potential to go critical due to water moderation you have minimum size requirements to maintain a dilute enough solution to prevent criticality problems. On the other thread, I thought you were describing a system where you'd have a...
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:12 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell and Proliferation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 42699
As neutron sources IEC devices are old hat. As far as a rogue group building an IEC device as a neutron source... if all you want is a bomb.... why go the route via IEC. Does this represent a shortcut compared to the traditional ten thousand centrifuges ? My guess is no. To do Pu-239 breeding, you ...
- Fri Nov 02, 2007 4:09 am
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell and Proliferation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 42699
Even chemical separation will be radiation intensive. There will be a lot of fission products to go with the Pu239. Radioactivity can be detected from a distance. Several objections: First, you'll get no isotope sniffing hits off of the fusion machine itself. If I were a savvy terrorist, I'd do a n...
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:07 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Bussard's Final Interview
- Replies: 53
- Views: 44338
I started another thread on the proliferation issue over in the implicationsforum.
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:54 pm
- Forum: Implications
- Topic: Polywell and Proliferation
- Replies: 39
- Views: 42699
Polywell and Proliferation
Hi All-- This topic emerged over on another thread here: . Seems like it really belongs over in this forum. Here's the issue: Today, there are two ways to make stuff for nuclear weapons: 1) You can enrich uranium to produce highly enriched U-235 (often abbreviated HEU). This is hard because you have...
- Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:47 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Bussard's Final Interview
- Replies: 53
- Views: 44338
Uh, so isn't this likely to become a big fat hairy deal for the (rational) non-proliferation policy crowd and the (hysterical) Radiation Is Scary and Therefore Bad crowd? Up until now, the lynchpin of Pu-239 control has been that you needed a reactor to get a beefy enough neutron source, and reactor...
- Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:32 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Bussard's Final Interview
- Replies: 53
- Views: 44338
- Tue Oct 16, 2007 6:11 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Bussard's Final Interview
- Replies: 53
- Views: 44338
Indrek-- I couldn't tell if your "cloak and dagger" comment was directed at me or somebody else. In case it was intended for me, I apologize for being excessively terse. I'm more interested in figuring out what the development strategy is than looking for conspiracies. Is the secrecy associated with...
- Tue Oct 16, 2007 4:27 pm
- Forum: News
- Topic: Dr. Bussard's Final Interview
- Replies: 53
- Views: 44338
- Thu Oct 04, 2007 4:28 pm
- Forum: Fund-Raising
- Topic: Funding Status Requested
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7762
Funding Status Requested
What's the story with the announcement on the funding?
Do we know what the hold-up is?
Is it for-real?
Does the lack of a public announcement indicate that ONR is going to classify the work?
Do we know what the hold-up is?
Is it for-real?
Does the lack of a public announcement indicate that ONR is going to classify the work?