From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 15:48:30 MDT
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Eugen Leitl wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Robert J. Bradbury wrote:
>
> > [snip] I am unfamiliar with any physics that makes it reasonable
> > that you can get a 2 MT bomb the size of a baseball.)
>
> [snip] created by irradiation of mercury in an accelerator.
> It's supposed to be a neutron reflector/multiplier.
Ok, that at least makes it "plausible" but we need a *lot* more
evidence to move it into the "probable" catagory.
A neutron reflector seems very unlikely -- a neutron multiplier
might be feasible (at least given my very limited knowledge of
nuclear physics).
The question would be whether there exist decay paths that tend
to rapidly produce an ever increasing number of neutron producing
decays (begs the question of how an alpha decay produces neutrons
that I posed in another thread).
Robert
Can I get some side bets here as to how high on the FBI/CIA watch
list this thread is taking us?
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