Destroying Nuclear Weapons with High-Energy Neutrinos

TheMatt writes "As reported by PhysicsWeb, physicists are proposing a "futuristic but not necessarily impossible" method of destroying nuclear weapons via high-energy neutrinos sent through the earth. Based on current planned efforts, this 'vast extrapolation' of current technology would use 1000 TeV beams. This would require a 1000-km diameter storage ring using magnets orders-of-magnitude stronger than currently available. The cost would be around $100 million-plus and it'd use 50 GW of energy, the UK's current consumption. (And the slight problem that the process might set off the nukes, instead of just melting them...)"

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Dear North Korea

[jrivar59]

Dear North Korea,

Please allow me to express our deepest regrets and sympathies for vaporizing your country. Unfortunatly, while attempting to help save the world from future nuclear calamities, we accidently detonated all your nuclear warheads. We hope that this will not cause you any inconvenience, and we look forward to a prosperous trade relationship with your country at the conclusion of your nuclear winter.

Sincerly,

-George W Bush

Re:Dear North Korea

[mythr]

That's obviously a forgery. Our president could never write something that eloquent. ;)

Re:Dear North Korea

[NeoSkandranon]

PS: All your base are belong to us.

All I could think of was Dr. Brown.

[BoomerSooner]

1.21 Gigawatts!!!!

Gotta love /.

[JUSTONEMORELATTE]

After reading 36 of 46 comments, largely from folks saying "I have no clue about any of this, but what about ]blah[", I got the following tagline at the bottom:
It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem.

Who knew /usr/games/fortune was so smart?

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