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New research (more accessible) suggests that Boron-Hydrogen fusion may be viable, and doesn't leave behind a radioactive reactor.
our simulations show for example that 14 milligram HB11 can produce 300 kWh energy if all achieved results are combined for the design of an absolutely clean power reactor producing low-cost energy.
Now where did I leave my petawatt lasers?
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday December 18 2017, @06:29PM (3 children)
There is a proliferation risk for nuclear weapons that require no fissile material.
Obviously, your average terrorist organization would find it difficult to create a pure fusion weapon, should it ever be realized. But it would be harder to detect (no Geiger giveaway) and wouldn't require the fissile material or the difficult (and disruptable, as Stuxnet showed) process of enriching it.
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(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday December 18 2017, @09:48PM (2 children)
Again, so what? There's already rampant proliferation of conventional explosives, and a fallout-free nuclear weapon is just a really expensive bomb.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday December 18 2017, @10:17PM (1 child)
Load a nuclear bomb onto a truck and detonate it in the middle of a city. You'll do far more damage than any amount of conventional explosives you could load into that truck.
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(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday December 18 2017, @11:00PM
Sure. But for the same price you could load a whole fleet of trucks with conventional explosives and detonate them all around the city, doing far more total damage.