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   Thomas Koenig to Lynn McGuire   
   Re: Freefall: Nuclear Vessels   
   14 Oct 25 05:46:37   
   
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   From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
   > Freefall: Nuclear Vessels   
   >     http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff4300/fc04281.htm   
   >   
   > Oh yeah, that would definitely increase the insurance on the space ship.   
      
   Niven had fusion reactors which could become thermonuclear weapons   
   by just removing some control mechanism.   
      
   From an engineering perspective, that makes very little sense indeed -   
   confinement for a sustained nuclear reaction initiating a nuclear   
   explosion via neutrons emitted from a primary fission explosion are   
   very different things indeed.   
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