North Korea Perfect Nuclear Fusion!

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North Korea Perfect Nuclear Fusion!

Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed May 12, 2010 1:41 pm

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NKorea claims to achieve elusive nuclear fusion
By KWANG-TAE KIM (AP) – 7 hours ago
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea claimed Wednesday that its scientists succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction, but experts doubted the isolated communist country actually had made the breakthrough in the elusive clean-energy technology.
Fusion nuclear reactions produce little radioactive waste — unlike fission, which powers conventional nuclear power reactors — and some hope it could one day provide a virtually limitless supply of clean energy. U.S. and other scientists have been experimenting with fusion for decades, but it has yet to be developed into a viable energy alternative.
North Korea's main newspaper, however, reported that its own scientists achieved the feat on the occasion of the "Day of the Sun" — a North Korean holiday marking the birthday of the country's late dynastic founder, Kim Il Sung, in April.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 12, 2010 1:42 pm

So, they waited until "The Day of the Sun" to turn it on? Thumb up it until then?
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Post by colubridae » Wed May 12, 2010 1:44 pm

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Post by FBM » Wed May 12, 2010 1:50 pm

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I watched that whole fucking thing, expecting something about NK. :pawiz:
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Post by newolder » Wed May 12, 2010 2:12 pm

:roll:
See also:
10th May 2010: Russia and Italy have entered into an agreement to build a new fusion reactor outside Moscow that could become the first such reactor to achieve ignition, the point where a fusion reaction becomes self-sustaining instead of requiring a constant input of energy. The design for the reactor, called Ignitor, originated with MIT physics professor Bruno Coppi, who will be the project's principal investigator.
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Edit to add: Ignitor website
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9th May 2010: World's largest laser takes first steps towards nuclear fusion reaction
The quest to create a controlled fusion reaction is underway at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility (NIF), with scientists reporting early progress ahead of ignition experiments which are due to start later this year. The ultimate aim of the world's largest laser - which is the size of three football fields - is to develop carbon-free, limitless fusion energy.
Inside the NIF, a beam of concentrated light charges up by bouncing back and forth over the distance of a mile and is then split into 192 beams which are concentrated on a tiny spot of deuterium and tritium (reactive isotopes of hydrogen that can be extracted from seawater) called a hohlraum.
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Post by Coito ergo sum » Wed May 12, 2010 2:16 pm

I wish we in North America and Europe would team up on a Manhattan Project for nuclear fusion. That would have been a good use of a couple of hundred billion dollars.....

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Post by colubridae » Wed May 12, 2010 2:19 pm

FBM wrote:
colubridae wrote:
I watched that whole fucking thing, expecting something about NK. :pawiz:
Oh relevance... Nah
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Post by RuleBritannia » Wed May 12, 2010 2:40 pm

:lol: North Korea can't even keep their bloody lights on in Pyongyang. They've been building the Ryugyong Hotel on-and-off for 23 years because they keep running out of money.
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 12, 2010 2:56 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:I wish we in North America and Europe would team up on a Manhattan Project for nuclear fusion. That would have been a good use of a couple of hundred billion dollars.....
I saw some twat on Faux News saying "They want to start a STAR on the surface of the Earth? I don't know about you, but I don't think that's a good idea." Then, of course, he got back into his Hummer, drove 35 miles to his 16 room house on 5 acres of land clear-cut from the forest and watched himself on his 6,000" (diagonal) LCD TV.
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Post by Ian » Wed May 12, 2010 8:52 pm

Coito ergo sum wrote:I wish we in North America and Europe would team up on a Manhattan Project for nuclear fusion. That would have been a good use of a couple of hundred billion dollars.....
They're working on it. :tea:

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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 12, 2010 8:54 pm

The NK fusion plant would look woefully inadequate for the job from the air if anybody had pictures of it.

Which they don't, of course.
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Post by klr » Wed May 12, 2010 8:56 pm

That's the Nobel Prize for physics sorted anyway. No doubt The Great Leader himself will be claiming it. :lol:
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Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Wed May 12, 2010 9:19 pm

klr wrote:That's the Nobel Prize for physics sorted anyway. No doubt The Great Leader himself will be claiming it. :lol:
At the insistence of the researchers who were inspired by his recent articles in Quantum Physics and String Theory. (Rave reviews from DailyNK, btw.)
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Re: North Korea Perfect Nuclear Fusion!

Post by klr » Wed May 12, 2010 9:23 pm

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klr wrote:That's the Nobel Prize for physics sorted anyway. No doubt The Great Leader himself will be claiming it. :lol:
At the insistence of the researchers who were inspired by his recent articles in Quantum Physics and String Theory. (Rave reviews from DailyNK, btw.)
The man is so multi-talented, he must be frustrated at being a mere dictator. :hehe:
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