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Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but when the ignited hygrogen/berillium pellet fuses, wouldn't the resulting explosion destroy the whole damn thing?
Posted by Beren One Hand (Member # 3403) on :
Luckily, such mishaps can be remedied by dropping the whole thing into a river.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
I wouldn't be happy if a 5 billion dollar project gets destroyed with a successful test .
Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :
<insert obligatory Austin Powers reference here>
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Probably only a tiny fraction of the hydrogen in the target pellet is expected to fuse and release energy. Presumably the test chamber can handle the energy expected.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
With how the article protrays the people in charge of this thing, I wouldn't be surprised if its a huge disaster.
The test is successful if the energy to make the pellet fuse is less than it the energy released with the fusion, right?
Must be a very well built chamber to resist something that releases more than 180 million degrees of (presumably unfocused) energy.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Yes, from the article the project does seem to be managed incompetently, at least in the past.
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