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| Iranians Discover Sun |
| 2008-08-01 |
| That's pretty much the only way this report could be true. Tehran, 1 August: The official Iranian news agency (IRNA) quotes Expediency Council chief, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani as saying, "We have started the first activities of nuclear fusion." Rafsanjani made the remarks today during a speech delivered to a gathering of students at Tehran's Jamaran Hoseynieh. No. Way. A fusion bomb means first mastering fission bombs. Sustained fusion...well, we've been working on that for decades now, and still Mr. Fusion eludes us. So unless the Iranians are claiming that big hydrogen bomb in the sky for their own, this report is, um, wrong. Via Hot Air, where people have already suggested the more likely explanations of 1)a mistranslation or 2)ignorance on Rafsanjani's part. |
| Posted by:Angie Schultz |
| #3 The heat required to induce fusion is beyond comprehension. However, there are potential end-runs - using plasma technology - which involve generation of high temperatures for split seconds, while using alternating pressure technologies to achieve the desired effect. A breakthrough is possible. During the Los Alamos experiments on fission bombs, the detonator was based on use of an expanded model of ignition manifolds, used on vehicles. For those who don't know, books on high energy physics, lasers, plasma appear on Iranian and Egyptian pirate sites as soon as they are published by Springer, Elvesier, Wiley, Cambridge, etc. These are being read in Teheran and Islamabad while MIT students wait for an opportunity to photocopy same. |
| Posted by: Jotch Fillmore2862 2008-08-01 19:35 |
| #2 It's mighty difficult to keep the Djinni in the bottle, as it were. (I don't think I'll see that TokaMate--"Your Personal Fusion Reactor(TM)"--in my lifetime.) |
| Posted by: eLarson 2008-08-01 18:06 |
| #1 If they are not careful, Israel may personally introduce them to current fusion technology. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-08-01 15:14 |