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[dal10]

http://www.efda.org/...esearch/safety/

6) Could you use fusion reactor research to make hydrogen bombs?

No. Although hydrogen bombs do use fusion reactions, to detonate they require an additional fission bomb. Magnetically-confined fusion cannot itself produce the amount of instantaneous power required for a weapon. Magnetic confinement fusion research was even shared between the US and the USSR during the height of the Cold War.

not even going to bother arguing past this. almost all, if not all, research on fusion reactors say they can not be turned into bombs. end of story.

[blinkin]

dal10, on 11 September 2013 - 06:33 PM, said:

http://www.efda.org/...esearch/safety/

6) Could you use fusion reactor research to make hydrogen bombs?

No. Although hydrogen bombs do use fusion reactions, to detonate they require an additional fission bomb. Magnetically-confined fusion cannot itself produce the amount of instantaneous power required for a weapon. Magnetic confinement fusion research was even shared between the US and the USSR during the height of the Cold War.

not even going to bother arguing past this. almost all, if not all, research on fusion reactors say they can not be turned into bombs. end of story.

"at very low pressures" <- that right there says it all. a mech CANNOT hold a kilogram of hydrogen at low pressures. there is simply not enough space to maintain large scale systems like the one described.

reason 2 why your link proves nothing beyond your own ignorance: they specifically list tritium which is a hydrogen atom that has one proton and 2 neutrons. tritium requires far far far less heat and pressure to fuse. standard hydrogen (the kind that consists of one proton and nothing else) requires roughly 10x the heat and pressure needed for deuterium, to overcome the natural repulsion of the protons. brown dwarfs (the level just below the smallest stars) will fuse deuterium and tritium even though they cannot fuse standard hydrogen. in mech fusion reactor descriptions on sarna they EXPLICITLY define mech reactors as using standard hydrogen (one proton).