| From: | "Paolo Falko, Explorer" <Falco@****.IT> |
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| Subject: | Re: Narcoject |
| Date: | Fri, 11 Sep 1998 09:42:51 +0200 |
> What about ceramic darts for use with acid.
> or small amouts of radioactive materials for a miniture thermonuclear
> divice.
Nuclear, no way jimmo. You need to achieve "critical mass" to have a
reaction, i.e. the total coefficient of the "four factor" equation
needs to be more than 1. meaning that you need at least one reusable
neutron for every used neutron. SInce neutrons (both fast and slow)
tend to escape, this means that unless you find a really new cool
mumbojumbo transuranic stabile (oximoron in itself) element, you're
stuck to making bombs more (or, more often, a little less) than 1/2
cube metre in volume, i.e. about the mean path for slow neutrons in
stabile fissile elements. This is actually more complicated, but the
core is this: nuclear devices cannot really be very small unless you
in some way warp the fundamental laws of nature.
Paolo-who-sometimes-likes-to-show-he's-given-"Physics-of-neutrons"-
(twice)-last-year...
:)
"Doktor" Paolo Falco, Explorer Falco@****.iT
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