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.
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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.
DV82XL
March 29, 2008 at 5:12 am