[ RadSafe ] Boron-11 aneutronic fusion

[Steven Dapra]

May 30

         This seems to be a typical anti-nuclear ploy.  Don't develop 
what we have now, or shut it down if it is being used.  Instead wait 
for something new and improved that is over the horizon.

Steven Dapra


At 08:26 AM 5/30/2011, you wrote:
>James,
>
>Interesting to hear from you again after such a long time of silence!
>
>  Unfortunately I am not able to follow your reasoning due to lack 
> of appropriate nuclear knowledge. Only a few weeks ago I attended a 
> lecture in my former research institute about innovative nucleart 
> power supplies, but nothing was said about your B-11 proton fusion. 
> So this might be a plan for the 25th century. But we need power here and now.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Franz
>
>
>---- James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> schrieb:
> > Many people on this list have insinuated that I am opposed to 
> nuclear power,
> > but I am strongly in favor of boron-11+proton fusion, because it is
> > aneutronic and thus does not produce any nuclear waste, unlike almost all
> > forms of fission and fusion power.
> >
> > Are any health physicists working on B11 fusion human exposure cross
> > sections?
> >
> > Regards,
> > James Salsman

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