About time fusion got going

[stek]

Doc Brown has one in his De Lorean...

[malvolio]

Well you can use Fusion itself for a bomb, using a Fusion Reaction. Hypothetical though, or so I was told when I worked in Nuclear Industry. On VMS tho not like skip runs or void tests or whatever to bods used to get me to run on their Alphas. Or VAXes if 1992....

Oh please... They're Vaxen...

[BrilloPad]

There will never be a need for more than 5 fusion reactors in the world.

[TykeMerc]

Bung in a few heavier elements, iron will do, a few dozen atoms would be sufficient. Fusing elements heavier than hydrogen which would be possible at the temperatures and pressures of an active fusion will release some monumental energies.

It's really not that difficult to imagine ways to turn a fusion reaction into a weapon. Even for an idiot that can't work out how to turn that twattish tapatalk sig off it's easy to come up with dangerous scenarios.

[scooterscot]

As in a fusion bomb yes. Which requires specific geometry of isotropic chemical explosives to act as a trigger. But the question was a fusion reactor, it's self sustaining, and is going to explode how?


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[stek]

Prey do tell us how you weaponise a fusion reactor?

Well you can use Fusion itself for a bomb, using a Fusion Reaction. Hypothetical though, or so I was told when I worked in Nuclear Industry. On VMS tho not like skip runs or void tests or whatever to bods used to get me to run on their Alphas. Or VAXes if 1992....

[scooterscot]

Fusion reactor in a transit van size, that would add a whole new dimension to the terrorist format.

Prey do tell us how you weaponise a fusion reactor?

[Churchill]

"In recent years, Lockheed has gotten increasingly" ffs, that's almost as bad as "off of"

[darmstadt]

Got going quite a while ago....

[RSoles]

KUATB
Fusor.net

[TykeMerc]

Fusion reactor in a transit van size, that would add a whole new dimension to the terrorist format.

If it becomes a reality then the possibilities for decent uses are awesome

[tractor]

.....

Lockheed says makes breakthrough on fusion energy project | Reuters

Ut-oh, they must be short of cash and are looking for some investment.

[scooterscot]

I thought this technology was 50 years away?*

*starting from tomorrow


By the by, if any of this is true folks at ITER will be in dismay.

[BrilloPad]

Lockheed says makes breakthrough on fusion energy project | Reuters