Oh for crying out loud. I was talking about the bomb in the movie peacemaker which the parent mentioned. God damnit, when i said fission trigger i figured everyone would know I was talking about bomb in the movie because i assumed people who know about this stuff know there is no fission trigger in a fusion power generator.
Okay? I never said we should head for the hills or the death toll would be tremendous. I said you would have powdered plutonium around the blast site(Inside a building). Hell on a good day the charges made the small flimsy building fall on itself. However the explosisves are not weak, and powdered uranium is something you need to clean up. It can hurt people, not effectively, but it can. I'm not sure why the hell you never said this.
Yes, the wiki article on dirty bombs, it told me absolutely nothing. It would be a RDD. It does nothing to contradict me, if anything it proves what is said. Even if a fizzle occurs its not completely harmless. You still have a powdered radioactive material contaminating the blast site. Asking me to read a wiki article i have seen before now makes no sense. I'm not even sure what the point of your first response was.
If you read my post I said FISSION TRIGGER. I was talking about the movie, and how removing one of the shaped charges on the device would prevent it from causing a fission, which in turn causes a fusion reaction, that could destroy a city. However, when the charges detonated minus the one charge would very effectively powder and spread weapons grade plutonium around the blast site very effectively. That is what you would have noticed if you RTFT and RMFP.
Boron is used in what is called "aneutronic" fusion. Essentially you would have very little radiation release by the reaction itself.
p+11B->3 4He.
However I'm not really sure what to make of it. Seeing as the optimum temperature for Boron is 120KeV(I think), somewhere about 9 times more than that of a hydrogen fusion reaction.
I consider myself mildly knowledgeable about fusion for a person with little actual study of physics beyond the HS level. Enough to make an intelligent statement about it.
I'm not sure what you are saying. I was commenting on something the movie missed and how even preventing the fission reaction doesn't prevent dangerous things from happening.
Okay the actual reactor its self could be considered waste but few of the things have half-lifes of more than 100 years as opposed to 1000s of years with a fusion reactor. The amount of waste is also considerably less.
Meltdown:Meltdown is the wrong word. A failure of the containment could occur, but the reaction would die when exposed to outside conditions and the magnets could explode they would throw shrapnel around. however this would not a be a sudden or instant thing.
Unlike a nuclear reactor the fuel is supplied at a constant rate, when fuel is removed the reaction stops. it would be equivilant to a large piece of machinery at a factory breaking falling over or exploding. Nothing is leaving the building and its gonna be expensive. However if this happens you need to be looking at the people running the thing, and ask them why they didn't turn it off.
Weapon stuff:Well deuterium is used in a fusion weapons, but you can get the stuff isn't that hard to get, and you still need a fission reaction to start a weapon fusion reaction.
So devices use have a system that catches neutrons that leave the reaction and converts them into tritium then feeds them back into the reaction.
I'm using a thing in my colleges degree to get a BS in game design and a MS in CS. In case i prove to be a complete creative failure in the industry and add nothing new, I can still throw myself into a corporate hell hole to survive.
Well if a ship with an improbability drive goes somewhere, you will get a working ps3, which is in perfect condition, came with 2 games and you got it half off. However karma is going to catch up with you and a meteor is going to plow straight through your skull.
Ahh, but it removes a potential of several hundred dollars worth of games over the next 2 to 3 months. If sony didn;t sell it to him, they would sell it to someone who is going to buy games and accessories for it. It would be one thing if no one was buying these, but since the demand is more high, buy a PS3 but no games would hurt sony more than not buying it, because they WILL sell it.
Wouldn't want to put out Gears of War and halo3 so close together. Plus the more time they have the better, and bill gates doesn't know game development?
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Really though, its had to be accurate, you could maybe pick a state to hit.
Huge amount of fallout though, non radioactive, but not localized at all.
Oh for crying out loud. I was talking about the bomb in the movie peacemaker which the parent mentioned. God damnit, when i said fission trigger i figured everyone would know I was talking about bomb in the movie because i assumed people who know about this stuff know there is no fission trigger in a fusion power generator.
Okay? I never said we should head for the hills or the death toll would be tremendous. I said you would have powdered plutonium around the blast site(Inside a building). Hell on a good day the charges made the small flimsy building fall on itself. However the explosisves are not weak, and powdered uranium is something you need to clean up. It can hurt people, not effectively, but it can. I'm not sure why the hell you never said this.
Yes, the wiki article on dirty bombs, it told me absolutely nothing. It would be a RDD. It does nothing to contradict me, if anything it proves what is said. Even if a fizzle occurs its not completely harmless. You still have a powdered radioactive material contaminating the blast site. Asking me to read a wiki article i have seen before now makes no sense. I'm not even sure what the point of your first response was.
If you read my post I said FISSION TRIGGER. I was talking about the movie, and how removing one of the shaped charges on the device would prevent it from causing a fission, which in turn causes a fusion reaction, that could destroy a city. However, when the charges detonated minus the one charge would very effectively powder and spread weapons grade plutonium around the blast site very effectively. That is what you would have noticed if you RTFT and RMFP.
Boron is used in what is called "aneutronic" fusion. Essentially you would have very little radiation release by the reaction itself.
p+11B->3 4He.
However I'm not really sure what to make of it. Seeing as the optimum temperature for Boron is 120KeV(I think), somewhere about 9 times more than that of a hydrogen fusion reaction.
I consider myself mildly knowledgeable about fusion for a person with little actual study of physics beyond the HS level. Enough to make an intelligent statement about it.
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I'm not sure what you are saying. I was commenting on something the movie missed and how even preventing the fission reaction doesn't prevent dangerous things from happening.
There are 3 reactions.
Deuterium + Tritium
Deuterium +Deuterium
Boron 11 one.
A system was developed that used lithium to catch those and feed them back into the reaction as tritium.
Okay the actual reactor its self could be considered waste but few of the things have half-lifes of more than 100 years as opposed to 1000s of years with a fusion reactor. The amount of waste is also considerably less.
Fuel:Heavy water (Deuterium or Tritium)
Waste:Helium.
Meltdown:Meltdown is the wrong word. A failure of the containment could occur, but the reaction would die when exposed to outside conditions and the magnets could explode they would throw shrapnel around. however this would not a be a sudden or instant thing. Unlike a nuclear reactor the fuel is supplied at a constant rate, when fuel is removed the reaction stops. it would be equivilant to a large piece of machinery at a factory breaking falling over or exploding. Nothing is leaving the building and its gonna be expensive. However if this happens you need to be looking at the people running the thing, and ask them why they didn't turn it off.
Weapon stuff:Well deuterium is used in a fusion weapons, but you can get the stuff isn't that hard to get, and you still need a fission reaction to start a weapon fusion reaction.
So devices use have a system that catches neutrons that leave the reaction and converts them into tritium then feeds them back into the reaction.
Not completely harmlessly, it would have the effect of a small dirty bomb when the materials in the fission trigger were powdered and spread.
I'm using a thing in my colleges degree to get a BS in game design and a MS in CS. In case i prove to be a complete creative failure in the industry and add nothing new, I can still throw myself into a corporate hell hole to survive.
Filthy rich white suburbanites who play madden and battlefield 2 and yell that they are 1337. AKA the dregs of gaming.
Haha
Well it was about teaming up, then Medivh one the race to do it first, then it slowed down a bit.
Well if a ship with an improbability drive goes somewhere, you will get a working ps3, which is in perfect condition, came with 2 games and you got it half off. However karma is going to catch up with you and a meteor is going to plow straight through your skull.
Give me some money, a team, time, and good hardware and ill see what I can do.
Yes, I know I'm delusional, I'm gonna be a cube rat in the end but I can always dream.
I'm not sure i have ever seen a campus that couldn't fit within a 50 mile diameter circle.
Ahh, but it removes a potential of several hundred dollars worth of games over the next 2 to 3 months. If sony didn;t sell it to him, they would sell it to someone who is going to buy games and accessories for it. It would be one thing if no one was buying these, but since the demand is more high, buy a PS3 but no games would hurt sony more than not buying it, because they WILL sell it.
Damn you beat me to it.
Hehe, i figured that.
Well alot of the things come with a "This is not final code" blah blah blah blah thing. If they go further and call it a beta, then it should be fine.
Wouldn't want to put out Gears of War and halo3 so close together. Plus the more time they have the better, and bill gates doesn't know game development?
How many games can't be played by a computer one some level?