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Hans Bethe on Fission-Fusion Hybrid Reactors

Posted by Luke Weston on March 28, 2008

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.

One Response to “Hans Bethe on Fission-Fusion Hybrid Reactors”

  1. DV82XL Says:

    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.

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