Norway about to explode... literally!

[The Don]

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/lo...cle1814646.ece



edit: can someone please fix my idiocy in the title...

it's spelled Norway*

[supersix4]

ouch!

[Aaron]

I'll have to knock Norway off my list of places to see before I die.

[Blu As Hell]

Originally Posted by Aaron

I'll have to knock Norway off my list of places to see before I die.

I agree totally...I'm scratching it off my list as we speak.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Blu As Hell

I agree totally...I'm scratching it off my list as we speak.

Augusta National still remains at the top of mine.

[Blu As Hell]

Originally Posted by Aaron

Augusta National still remains at the top of mine.

I'm from Georgia I have never been so it's on my list as well.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Blu As Hell

I'm from Georgia I have never been so it's on my list as well.

Haha, there's many of us that will never go there. I want to play there so bad! When i'm a billionaire, i'll send you an invite...lol

[WriteSimply]

I think by "explode" they mean leak into the environment. Fision/Fusion reaction requires fisionable/fusionable nuclear fuel AND a fuse/starter.

Nevertheless, a leak would be disasterous.


fuad

[Shadowself]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

I think by "explode" they mean leak into the environment. Fision/Fusion reaction requires fisionable/fusionable nuclear fuel AND a fuse/starter.

Nevertheless, a leak would be disasterous.


fuad

As an ex-nuke and someone who has worked in this kind of stuff before (and even has issued patents on nuclear systems which are listed in the "required systems" of the U.S. military)...

Fission reactions can start without any initiator. You just need to start with enough fissile material in a small enough volume.

That said, the fissile material in naval nuclear reactors are in a chemical matrix. They are not in pure form -- not even for Russian naval reactors. Thus the "particles" falling to the bottom of the rods as they decay are not pure fissile material. Therefore it is extremely unlikely that they will reach a critical mass in a small enough volume to create a super critical chain reaction (i.e., "explode").

Could it happen? Possibly. However, it is extremely unlikely.

And... you can't get a fusion reaction out of a naval nuclear reactor's natively available components no matter what you do. Period.

[WriteSimply]

Thanks for the tech talk. Now all of us here would be under scrutiny.


fuad

[Shadowself]

Originally Posted by WriteSimply

Thanks for the tech talk. Now all of us here would be under scrutiny.


fuad

they were not already watching you?