You're getting confused. You're describing what is a boosted fission device. Fusion weapons are still vastly more powerful than fission devices in the biggest bombs.
I know that various British dial-a-yield designs have at least three settings: 1) unboosted primary ~ 1.5kt, 2) boosted primary ~ 10kt, where tritium is injected into the primary to boost the number of neutrons available to increase the percentage of uranium/plutonium that gets fissioned; and 3) 1.5 Mt, where the fusion secondary is enabled.
Xerox Parc were famous for innovating like hell, but being completely unable to monetize that innovation. Other people took their inventions and ran with them.
The USA is doing this on a national level. America innovates -- China, buys or steals the IP, then destroys American business, and yet people whine about the lack of 'pure' free markets, as if the beggar-thy-neighbour, merchantilist Chinese are doing everything they can to destroy Western business.
Time for people, especially the free market idealists to pull their heads out of their arses, and realise that the crypto-fascist Chinese Communist Party is waging a long, generational war against the West, and are hell bent on world domination.
When competing with the Chinese, all options must be on the table. If that means we're not simon-sure free-marketers, so what? If the government puts up seed money to kick-start American national champions and the bet turns sour, so what?
Ideological purity will get us nowhere at the end of the day. Only winning matters. Time to grow some balls, and learn how to fight as dirty as the Red Chinese.
Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Rome, Prague are rife with petty crime. Much of the crime is done by Romanian gypsies and north Africans.
The problem isn't necessarily the abovementioned pondlife; it's the local authorities' ineffectual approach to law and order. Compare and contrast with NYPD and their dedicated robbery squad, who cleared out the professional pickpockets in the Nineties when it got to be a problem.
One way that's been recommended to stop crooks hacking the phone part, is to get the cheapest shittiest dumbphone you can find, get a cheap SIM, and use _that_ for two factor authentication.
Here, low end dumbphones are so cheap, they're virtually disposable. When I travel to cities with high petty crime (e.g. many big European cities), I just use the cheap phone and leave the expensive smartphone at home. The worst that can happen, is that your female friends get a few weird phone calls until you cancel the SIM.
The only reason why my office phone ever rings inbound, is because some piece-of-shit recruiter has scammed his way past the switchboard in order to waste my time.
The phone is vaguely useful for teleconferencing, and when I don't want to spend my own money using my own mobe for business. Apart from that, it's an annoyance.
Agricultural and fishing subsidies are bad for everyone and everything except the people whose livelihoods being subsidized.
Everyone pays. We pay taxes to save people who don't want to submit to market discipline and find it easier to lobby lawmakers than switch away from failing business models. We pay below-the-odds for shit food that's bad for us (we eat WAY too much meat and corn syrup) and makes us fat; we pay more for medicine to treat people as a consequence. We pay for the negative externalities for the environmental destruction of the forests and oceans.
And we're shelling out for these fat pigs, while government budgets are under pressure everywhere. Killing subsidies is an easy fix.
We pay, pay, pay in every way, while a bunch of fat cat fishermen and agri-businessmen make out like bandits. Somebody needs to find the balls to put an end to this colossal scam, and have the courage to END all primary production subsidies everywhere, once and for all.
Problem with this idea, is that these monsters endanger kids and very sick immunocompromised patients in hospital.
IF enough people opt out, herd immunity is destroyed (i.e. there's enough unvaccinated people around for a disease to propagate and linger in a population), and the death rate will soar. It's already happening.
*shrug* I think I could object less if only rabid libertarians died of vaccine preventable diseases; but it just doesn't work that way.
Muslims lie. The Iranians think they're at war with the world, and they lie and bluff repeatedly to protect their shitty theocratic regime. They'll say *anything*, because we are dirty kuffar unbelievers -- while they are weak, they'll lie, evade and deceive, but if they ever get strong, they'll crush us without hesitation, because to them, we are not quite human.
Mr Hand Flapper Assange knows that the minute he drops out of the headlines, he is fucked.
That's why you see him emerging from his hug-box in the Ecuadorian Embassy every now and again to make some kind of melodramatic, paranoid, loony statement. He knows his mentally-ill behaviour has made him some powerful enemies; and he has to keep working that symbiotic relationship he has with the media.
The only reason why this circus keeps rolling on, is because the irresponsible media keep feeding this publicity hungry monster.
Business as usual for that criminally insane nutter, sadly.
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Wrong. Stuffing thorium into fuel rods and loading them into PWRs, is hardly revolutionary (difficulty of engineering the fuel rods aside).
The interesting work is being done in liquid _core_ thorium-fueled reactors.
Thank you for debunking this rubbish.
It's been done to death in the literature, but somehow, this stuff keeps cropping up on forums like Slashdot.
You're getting confused. You're describing what is a boosted fission device. Fusion weapons are still vastly more powerful than fission devices in the biggest bombs.
I know that various British dial-a-yield designs have at least three settings: 1) unboosted primary ~ 1.5kt, 2) boosted primary ~ 10kt, where tritium is injected into the primary to boost the number of neutrons available to increase the percentage of uranium/plutonium that gets fissioned; and 3) 1.5 Mt, where the fusion secondary is enabled.
Nice try, fifty center.
Obvious pro-CCP astroturfer is obvious.
'Tie-eater'
The only people who are going to know who you're referring to are Georgians or Russians.
... "rescue wagon" is jus a PC way of saying "gigantic nuclear crash cart", I take it?
They have a way with words.
Xerox Parc were famous for innovating like hell, but being completely unable to monetize that innovation. Other people took their inventions and ran with them.
The USA is doing this on a national level. America innovates -- China, buys or steals the IP, then destroys American business, and yet people whine about the lack of 'pure' free markets, as if the beggar-thy-neighbour, merchantilist Chinese are doing everything they can to destroy Western business.
Time for people, especially the free market idealists to pull their heads out of their arses, and realise that the crypto-fascist Chinese Communist Party is waging a long, generational war against the West, and are hell bent on world domination.
When competing with the Chinese, all options must be on the table. If that means we're not simon-sure free-marketers, so what? If the government puts up seed money to kick-start American national champions and the bet turns sour, so what?
Ideological purity will get us nowhere at the end of the day. Only winning matters. Time to grow some balls, and learn how to fight as dirty as the Red Chinese.
The Kochs are union-busting, anti-human, anti-civilization scum who desperately need a date with Karma.
I pray that there is somebody out there crazy and unstable enough to give it to them early, before they unjustly die a natural death.
Anyway, Satan has prepared a very hot place in hell for those devils.
They profit extremely well from trashing the Earth; make them pay.
It's a dictators charter, pure and simple.
Now's a really good time to tell the world where to jump off.
If it doesn't enrich his soggy-biscuit mates somehow, 'Call Me Dave' isn't interested.
Corporations are 'people' in the sense that the interests of shareholders and senior managers trump anybody else's.
Market discipline and austerity are for us niggers. The rich, uber alles.
Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Rome, Prague are rife with petty crime. Much of the crime is done by Romanian gypsies and north Africans.
The problem isn't necessarily the abovementioned pondlife; it's the local authorities' ineffectual approach to law and order. Compare and contrast with NYPD and their dedicated robbery squad, who cleared out the professional pickpockets in the Nineties when it got to be a problem.
Western Union.
One way that's been recommended to stop crooks hacking the phone part, is to get the cheapest shittiest dumbphone you can find, get a cheap SIM, and use _that_ for two factor authentication.
Here, low end dumbphones are so cheap, they're virtually disposable. When I travel to cities with high petty crime (e.g. many big European cities), I just use the cheap phone and leave the expensive smartphone at home. The worst that can happen, is that your female friends get a few weird phone calls until you cancel the SIM.
The only reason why my office phone ever rings inbound, is because some piece-of-shit recruiter has scammed his way past the switchboard in order to waste my time.
The phone is vaguely useful for teleconferencing, and when I don't want to spend my own money using my own mobe for business. Apart from that, it's an annoyance.
For everything else, there's Skype/Lync.
Agricultural and fishing subsidies are bad for everyone and everything except the people whose livelihoods being subsidized.
Everyone pays. We pay taxes to save people who don't want to submit to market discipline and find it easier to lobby lawmakers than switch away from failing business models. We pay below-the-odds for shit food that's bad for us (we eat WAY too much meat and corn syrup) and makes us fat; we pay more for medicine to treat people as a consequence. We pay for the negative externalities for the environmental destruction of the forests and oceans.
And we're shelling out for these fat pigs, while government budgets are under pressure everywhere. Killing subsidies is an easy fix.
We pay, pay, pay in every way, while a bunch of fat cat fishermen and agri-businessmen make out like bandits. Somebody needs to find the balls to put an end to this colossal scam, and have the courage to END all primary production subsidies everywhere, once and for all.
Allegedly, the US, unlike China, does NOT use government resources to do economic espionage to help American business, which strikes me as bizarre.
If they aren't -- they should be. Certainly if I were in charge, I'd be making the intelligence community earn their keep.
Problem with this idea, is that these monsters endanger kids and very sick immunocompromised patients in hospital.
IF enough people opt out, herd immunity is destroyed (i.e. there's enough unvaccinated people around for a disease to propagate and linger in a population), and the death rate will soar. It's already happening.
*shrug* I think I could object less if only rabid libertarians died of vaccine preventable diseases; but it just doesn't work that way.
Looks like fucking idiots are well represented in Congress.
Congrats to the American people for electing these utter fuckwits to office. Pat yourselves on the back.
Muslims lie. The Iranians think they're at war with the world, and they lie and bluff repeatedly to protect their shitty theocratic regime. They'll say *anything*, because we are dirty kuffar unbelievers -- while they are weak, they'll lie, evade and deceive, but if they ever get strong, they'll crush us without hesitation, because to them, we are not quite human.
Mr Hand Flapper Assange knows that the minute he drops out of the headlines, he is fucked.
That's why you see him emerging from his hug-box in the Ecuadorian Embassy every now and again to make some kind of melodramatic, paranoid, loony statement. He knows his mentally-ill behaviour has made him some powerful enemies; and he has to keep working that symbiotic relationship he has with the media.
The only reason why this circus keeps rolling on, is because the irresponsible media keep feeding this publicity hungry monster.
Business as usual for that criminally insane nutter, sadly.
Eagles may soar; but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
This script kiddie is anti-West, anti-White, anti-Israel, anti-civilization, whatever. I guess, that in Anonymous' eyes, he's a hero then.
Having 8% of your population wallow in illiteracy and ignorance is nothing to brag about.
I realise it's a Muslim country, but let's not mince words -- any country willing to tolerate that is a shithole.