Hans Bethe on Fission-Fusion Hybrid Reactors

Well, this is my light reading for tonight – from Physics Today, May 1979.

Very interesting stuff indeed – and of course, there’s no doubting that the author knows what he’s talking about.

March 28, 2008 - Posted by Luke Weston | Hans Bethe, fusion, nuclear engineering, nuclear physics, reactor physics | fusion, Hans Bethe, nuclear engineering, nuclear physics, reactor physics | 1 Comment

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Not to take anything away from the great Hans Bethe, but a molten salt reactor can be used as a thorium breeder with less fuss than a fission reactor.

Comment by DV82XL | March 29, 2008 | Reply

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Like many, i’ve decided that as a scientist, I simply can no longer in good conscience just sit idly by and watch things that are not scientifically true be spread on an astonishing scale, when it comes to this debate over the world’s fission energy renaissance.

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I’m a Liberal, (and an atheist) and usually a voter for the Australian Labor Party. That said, however, I can not at all disagree with John Howard’s policies of rationally investigating the feasibility of nuclear energy for Australia – although I didn’t vote for him in 2007, for other reasons.

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