[ RadSafe ] Coming soon to a basement near you???????
Maury
maurysis at peoplepc.com
Wed Jun 13 18:28:51 CDT 2012
Thanks Joe, but I became so exasperated at Step 5 with the import/export
authorities that I got hot under the collar, lost my temper, and blew up!!!!
Best,
Maury&Dog [MaurySiskel maurysis at peoplepc.com]
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On 6/13/2012 4:27 PM, JPreisig at aol.com wrote:
> THERMONUCLEAR WANNABE LIST OF THINGS TO DO:
> (partial list):
>
> 1... Buy many lab. cylinders of deuterium
>
> 2. Buy off-the-shelf (New/USA Model???) Mini-Nuclear Reactor
>
> or Build Reactor Yourself. Put it next to your working Fusor
> Research Equipment
>
> (Beware of Electric Shocks!!!)
>
> 3. Breed Tritium (see Kaplan's Nuclear Physics book)
>
> 4. Buy Suitcase Nuclear Fission Device from Former USSR (if
> available)???
>
> 5. Look through back issues of Popular Mechanics/Popular Science for
> Thermonuclear Device.
> Design Description. Or ask Iranian or North Korean Nuclear
> Physicist for Advice.
>
> 6. STRAP Fission Weapon to Deuterium/Tritium as per instructions in
> Popular Science/Popular
> Mechanics. If you get hung up, refer to the fission/fusion Senior
> Thesis by that kid at
> Princeton U.
>
> 7. Fly/Sail/Swim to Marshall Islands... Ask for Directions in Hawaii????
>
> 8. Tell Marshall Islanders to get off the Island for a while.
>
> 9. Test the Thermonuclear Bad Boy!!!!!
>
> 10. That wasn't so hard, was it????
>
> Take Care.... JRP
>
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 6/11/2012 1:46:32 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> Mike.Brennan at DOH.WA.GOV writes:
>
> Hi, John.
>
> I am not sure what you are trying to say. If you are saying that it is
> impossible to get pure D, then I would agree, though it is fairly easy
> to concentrate D to higher than normal natural ratio. The higher the
> concentration, the more difficult and expensive it is, but it can be
> done.
>
> Be that as it may, there is a lot more involved in making a fusion bomb
> than strapping a tank of deuterium (or even a tank of mixed deuterium
> and tritium) onto a fission bomb.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of John R Johnson
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 10:32 AM
> To: The International Radiation Protection (Health Physics) Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Coming soon to a basement near you???????
>
> Mike
>
> I'm sure you know that we can't only have deuterium as our only source
> of
> hydrogen because H and D have different molecular rates.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Brennan, Mike (DOH)<
> Mike.Brennan at doh.wa.gov> wrote:
>
>> The short answer is, "no". One cannot use off the shelf canisters of
>> deuterium and a random fission bomb and make a fusion bomb. I
> actually
>> know the long answer, but it would take more time than I have at the
>> moment, and the answer is still, "no".
>>
>> A tank of deuterium is no more dangerous than a similar size tank of
>> regular hydrogen.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
>> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of
>> JPreisig at aol.com
>> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2012 4:25 PM
>> To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
>> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Coming soon to a basement near you???????
>>
>> Dear Radsafe,
>>
>> The Fusor website is pretty interesting. Kids and adults doing
>> fusion science with
>> high voltage power supplies, bottles of deuterium, etc. Normally I
>> would
>> just chuckle about all this,
>> but I have some concerns.
>>
>> The Voltages being used are pretty high, and the power supplies
>> are
>> not necessarily
>> good, off-the-shelf, well-designed power supplies.
>>
>> People are buying lab. bottles of deuterium from Scientific
> supply
>> houses etc. For a few hundred $$$.
>> This is a low-level proliferation hazard. Transactions should be
>> tracked.
>> Someone buying more than a
>> few lab. bottles of deuterium needs to be tracked.
>>
>> One Suitcase nuke from the former USSR, or wherever, combined
> with
>> a
>> fair amount of
>> deuterium could produce a home-grown Hydrogen (Fusion) weapon. D, D
>> reaction etc.
>> It could happen. It shouldn't be allowed to happen. No wonder the
>> USA/Allies were so
>> concerned about that Heavy Water plant in Norway (or wherever) during
>> World
>> War II.
>> The Hydrogen weapon might have already been in someones mind at that
>> time.
>>
>> I see no evidence of neutron shielding for these Fusor amateur
>> fusion
>> efforts.
>> Shielding should happen as such experiments are scaled up.
>>
>> I'd hate to see what would happen to a safety official (state
>> government level???) on the western
>> USA coast if some kid were to electrocute himself, and the state
>> official
>> knew the
>> situation.
>>
>> Have a safe day... Regards, Joseph R. (Joe) Preisig, PhD
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/8/2012 3:06:25 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> JPreisig at aol.com writes:
>>
>> Kristian and Radsafe,
>>
>> What a seriously cool thread here on radsafe. A small 200 keV
>> particle accelerator with
>> possibility of having a deuterium and/or tritium source would allow
> one
>> to
>>
>> do fundamental fusion
>> research in a rather small academic and/or corporate environment.
> Get
>> 2
>> LiI detectors with
>> a set of polyethylene Bonner spheres and you can readily measure the
>> neutron spectra coming from
>> your fusion experiment. Fusion, Cold Fusion, Warm Fusion,
>> whatever....
>>
>> Doggone, scooped on my research grant application by a group of
>> basement inventors. Ouch.
>>
>> Google search also migma AND maglich (self-colliding beam
>> fusion).
>>
>> Someone's going to the Fusion promised-land well ahead of PPPL
>> (Princeton Plasma Physics
>> Lab) and/or ITER (International Fusion Effort). See Radsafe
>> archives
>> for
>> very much more information.
>>
>> Have a great weekend!!!! Regards, Joseph R. (Joe) Preisig,
> PhD
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 6/8/2012 12:24:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> doctorbill34 at gmail.com writes:
>>
>> When I worked at Argonne, a group of researchers built its own
>> homemade
>> particle accelerator; didn't bother to tell hp, of course.
>>
>> It's a tribute to the intelligence of American scientists that most
> of
>> them
>> survive working under the conditions they create for themselves!
>>
>> Bill Lipton
>> It's not about dose, it's about trust.
>> On Jun 8, 2012 10:16 AM, "Kristian Ukkonen"<ktu at iki.fi> wrote:
>>
>>> On 6/7/2012 18:17, Ted de Castro wrote:
>>>
>>>> I thought people here might be interested in seeing this link
>> telling
>>>> whomever how to make their own x-ray machine.
>>>>
>>>> Now "Instructables" is a great web site with articles telling you
>> how
>> to
>>>> make all sorts of interesting and useful things - and some,
>> well.......
>> >>
>>>> A while ago they had a "make a spot welder from a microwave oven
>>>> transformer" that was a major electrical death trap.
>>>>
>>>> Today I got my usual email showing new entries and saw this one:
>> >>
>>>> http://www.instructables.com/**id/How-to-X-Ray/<http://www.instru
>> ctables.com/id/How-to-X-Ray/>
>> > Nothing new. Already in 50s amateurs were building crude x-ray
>> machines
>>> from 01, 6BK4 triode etc. commercial tubes.. One of instructions
> was
>>> in "amateur scientist" column of Scientific American in 7/1956 by
>>> C.L.Stong. Also there was Van de Graff generator based
>> proton/deuteron
>>> linear accelerator in 8/1971 number.. For a whole list, see
>> >
>>
> http://amasci.com/amateur/**sciamdx.html<http://amasci.com/amateur/sciam
>> dx.h
>> tml>
>>> Nowadays people are already building inertial electrostatic
>> confinement
>>> deuterium fusion reactors in their basements with proven neutron
>>> production by activation experiments.. X-ray tubes are so old
> news.
>> :)
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Fusor
>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor>
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