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Randomly said: However it IS a political reality and proliferation concerns are why the US currently uses a once through fuel cycle and does no reprocessing of it's fuel.


What do you mean? When is the last time you vacationed in the Eastern Idaho Desert? Must have been some time very recently...

For the record, I think we can point to the former Britich Empire for most of the issues we are dealing with today. Iraq - who dumped gazillions of wealth into the hands of a bunch of nomadic goat and camel herders and gave little thought to what would happen afterward? Iran - Hmm, nope, no english ...

And on that thought, you can add also that Lybia (Qadaffi) was motivated by not so much diplomacy as deserved bullying. Google the ship BBC CHINA. BBC CHINA became the proverbial straw the broke the camel's back. It's repercussions are still rippling. He was backed into a corner and got more worried...

This is more than knowing what the wiffleball looks like (or so), it is about exploring the transition from mirror to wiffleball, and the proportional changes in the spikeyball (cusps) given changes in magnetic flux intensity(dial-a-field). As well as seeing if recirc is limited to one cusp(in/out p...

Fair enough. There was a lot of strategic deceptino going on by all parties involved. I was also out there in 03 for kick off, and the timing was dependant on many variables. Not the least of which was how long can you afford to keep a massive air sea and land force on the line. At the end of the da...

The whole embargo process was a joke. Saddam made sure it was. We (the US) and the UN created a micro-economy all based around the embargo. All it really did was provide another mechanism for Saddam to screw his people. The UN did try to move in aid and other key population sustainment items through...

The Original(TM) argument between the good doctors, Art and Rick... Seems circular, however, Dr. Nebel seemed pretty durn sure he could beat Bremstrahlung...anyone else remember the exchange below, took me a minute to find it again...I have to wonder what they learned from WB-7 after this was posted...

At 10KV and up there is no such thing as a safe supply. Which is why I put the word safe in quotes. What is needed is a power source that is as safe as experts can make it, without any of the potentially fatal mistakes that the non-expert may introduce. Something like this? A High Voltage Power Sup...

Dr. Carlson, These may help, it what they used to think (Circa 91/92), not sure if it is still what they think... Collisional Relaxation of Non-Maxwellian Plasma Distribution in a Polywell http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA257651 Ion Loss by Collisional Upscattering http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA257...

Please note that the decision for Recovery Act funding was made by the Energy Task Force which is above the navy. It was an OSD level decision. this includes the funding plus ups (which presumably was made from the un-assigned reserve funds from the total budget). The commmitee would have reviewed t...

GLAKES ETA, NPS ORLANDO, IDAHO (S5G), 698 (S6G)

Sorry, I wasn't clear in reference to chaotic control. Brain faster than fingers. I was thinking of alternate control methods per esempio Stochastic Control. If you can't control the actual feedback, set boundaries and let the system wander within. I fully agree that this is a multilayer and integra...

Chris - To further the point (from: http://www.defenselink.mil/recovery/plans_reports/2009/april/DoD_ARRA_First_Report_to_Congress-24_Mar_09.pdf); "The Components submitted multiple energy-related RDT&E candidate projects, studies and proposals for review in five broad areas listed below. Candidate ...

Chris - I remember that discussion, and still disagree. The fundamental point here, is that there has been a peer review for WB7, and the results justified a substantial increase in navy project support. The post peer review contracting has also implied that things are going on that are not well und...

http://www.dtic.mil/descriptivesum/Y201 ... 826D8Z.pdf

Here is the link, I forgot it!