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N. Korean Newspaper Repeats the Claim of "Successful of Nuclear Fusion"
Chosun Ilbo ^
| 05/15/10
Posted on 05/14/2010 8:42:35 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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This does not impress anybody, except China, who has been trying hard to revive 6-party talks, and show others that they are in charge of the regional situation. Instead of hinting that they are backing down a bit(at least nominally,) N. Korea ups the ante by claiming the success of nuclear fusion. This is a loss of face for China. Of course, China may not do anything about it in the end. Chia Head is probably pressuring China to unload more free food aids. Already there is some report that China sent fertilizers in time for NK's crop planting season.
To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; nw_arizona_granny; ...
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posted on
05/14/2010 8:43:06 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
So North Korea is the first nation in the world to have successfully fused hydrogen into helium under controlled circumstances?
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posted on
05/14/2010 8:53:59 PM PDT
by
LukeL
(Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
To: TigerLikesRooster
I would like to point out that there is considerable difference between nuclear “fission” and nuclear “fusion”. To my knowledge nobody in the world had succeeded in creating a sustained fusion reaction outside of a multi-stage thermonuclear weapon, and a “cold fusion” reactor has been the holy grail of nuclear physicists for decades. The chances that NoKo has figured this out are somewhere between slim and none.
This is nonsense coming out of NoKo once again, and if they really had figured out “fusion” their whole country would not be blacked out at night.
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posted on
05/14/2010 8:56:10 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Will the last American to leave California please bring the flag??)
To: Bean Counter
This is a pure political ploy, nothing more.
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posted on
05/14/2010 8:59:52 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
I know it is, but really, who do they think they are kidding??
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:00:59 PM PDT
by
Bean Counter
(Will the last American to leave California please bring the flag??)
To: TigerLikesRooster
This is a pure political ploy, nothing more. We hope.
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:03:41 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Rush, Beck and others are giving us the dots; it is up to us to connect them.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Fearing someone, somewhere on Earth might believe them sane, the NoKoreans yet again fill their semi-annual crazy quota.
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:03:49 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(I wonder what "bitte bitte"means?)
To: TigerLikesRooster
The developed world has spent fortunes attempting a controlled nuclear fusion - net power producting - reaction
over the past 30 years.
Tokamaks and magnetic containment bottles have all shown some promise - but not any have had an power output greater than that needed to get reaction started.
Perhaps DPRK has stumbled on a way to make scientists more productive by starving them!??
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:08:08 PM PDT
by
HardStarboard
(Which got me thinking of)
To: LukeL
Yep.
I sure hope they open an Intrade Market on this! I'm going to leverage the $10 million I'm getting from the former minister in the Democratic Republic of the Congo into like, a $billion.
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:08:10 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(I wonder what "bitte bitte"means?)
To: FredZarguna
The guy is easily outdoing any fiction cooked up by Hollywood. They should be more imaginative to get ahead of him.
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:10:37 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: Bean Counter
Well, it depends what you mean by sustained. In nuclear time, a half second is a long time, and that is about how long the fusion reaction has run at JET (Europe). This is much longer than a fusion weapon lasts!
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:13:38 PM PDT
by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
To: HardStarboard
Try 55 years.
At a seminar at Cal Tech in 1980 Dr. Edward Teller -- one of three people to have actually created nuclear fusion independently, and then only violently -- was asked how far off peaceful nuclear fusion was. He looked around the room and said, "It may happen within the lifetimes of a few of the people in this room." I was a 26 year-old grad student (and one of the youngest people) in the audience.
It isn't happening soon, and it isn't happening in NoKorea.
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:14:27 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(I wonder what "bitte bitte"means?)
To: LukeL
Well shoot, we did fusion in the 1950s. Flattened an Atoll.
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:21:21 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: FredZarguna
“Fearing someone, somewhere on Earth might believe them sane, the NoKoreans yet again fill their semi-annual crazy quota.”
Snicker
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:22:34 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
To: steve86
Yeah, but a thermonuclear weapon produces net energy. JET doesn’t.
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:24:41 PM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(I wonder what "bitte bitte"means?)
To: TigerLikesRooster
So when’s the warp drive coming?
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:47:17 PM PDT
by
tanuki
(Obamacare, Cap and Tax, Amnesty, in that order....)
To: tanuki
When they run out of food again.
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posted on
05/14/2010 9:48:27 PM PDT
by
TigerLikesRooster
(The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Has anyone seen Fleischman and Pons lately?
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posted on
05/14/2010 10:33:00 PM PDT
by
Bernard Marx
(I donÂ’t trust the reasoning of anyone who writes then when they mean than.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
High place sources have revealed that Kim Jong-il personally succeeded in producing a sustained nuclear fusion reaction using only materials and appliances found in a typical North Korean kitchen.
Kim Jong-il announced that North Korean will soon be a major exporter of cheap, abundant, renewable "green" energy to all non-capitalist countries of the world.
Afterwards for celebration and relaxation played 18 holes of golf where he once again shot 18 consecutive "holes in one". for a perfect score. He then invited Barak Obama, Tiger Woods and O.J. Simpson to join him in a foresome.
AP - North Korean Office....
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posted on
05/14/2010 10:53:55 PM PDT
by
sjmjax
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