Yup... plenty of technologies start of funded as military projects before going mainstream - since defence buyers are not as cost sensitive.
Anything that would benefit from more controllable output power presumably.
Yup... plenty of technologies start of funded as military projects before going mainstream - since defence buyers are not as cost sensitive.
Anything that would benefit from more controllable output power presumably.
Suicide trucks, of course. Only this time one such truck will take out the whole of Baghdad, not just 50 people or so.
Although they say truck-sized, quite what do they mean by that? Or, perhaps, what will be the end result (which might be much larger or smaller than what they mean at present) - 7.5 tonnes or multi-trailer road train?
Would it? How? Nothing like the inventory of a fission reactor (or a fission bomb). The activated structural parts won't disperse very widely. Might just as well dump the tritium in a water supply.
It's like "size of a dinner plate". What size dinner plate?
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One of my favourites is the size of a football pitch; something that has no fixed size.
"The initial design is for a 100 megawatt reactor measuring 10 feet by seven feet that could be loaded on to the back of a large truck."
Guess you missed that bit. ;)
a) I missed that bit! :-)
b) Is that really the complete thing? What about any generating equipment and coolant pumping, etc.?
Well that just claims to be the reactor... so the other stuff may be extra (although given the likely applications they probably want the whole thing to be a nicely integrated lump).
Probably much the same as for existing designs for micro nuclear reactors, which, as power stations, need a fair area of ancillary equipment to turn their output into useful power.
Inclined to agree with that.
Not so sure about this though tritium is a beta emitter with 12+ year half life. You really don't want to ingest beta emitters, they produce can rather nasty localised tissue damage if they get lodged inside somewhere.
The other thing about tritium as a fuel is that wonky pedia says it's "extremely rare" on earth, produced by the interaction of cosmic rays and the atmosphere.
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