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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: 3, Funny) by takyon on Saturday December 16 2017, @05:46PM (10 children)
Your life on Earth is nearly over:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure_fusion_weapon [wikipedia.org]
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/cst/bh_2013_denton.pdf [af.mil]
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 16 2017, @06:37PM (4 children)
Wake up,
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Saturday December 16 2017, @06:42PM
You don't sound woke yet. Get #woke.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 16 2017, @07:04PM (1 child)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wauzrPn0cfg [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @01:01PM
https://youtu.be/L1YN9QMKpBo?t=64 [youtu.be]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday December 18 2017, @09:15PM
Don't wake the sheeple. https://www.xkcd.com/1013/ [xkcd.com]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Monday December 18 2017, @06:20PM (4 children)
Seems like a non-issue to me. The fallout is what makes nuclear weapons so dangerous - get rid of the fallout, and they're just really big bombs. Potentially a bit more compact than conventional explosives, or much higher yield, but generally speaking dollar-for-dollar conventional explosives are a lot more effective - in almost every situation a bunch of small bombs does a lot more damage than one big bomb with the same total wield.
Bunker-busting is the only potential exception I can think of offhand, and frankly they're mainly relevant to going after political and military "nerve centers". And anything that makes the warmongers and generals more vulnerable is liable to decrease their desire to go to war. After all, war has long been a way for the powerful to spend other people's lives to increase their own wealth and power.
(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.