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Pastimes : The Case for Nuclear Energy
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To: Snowshoe who wrote (21)1/15/2001 11:29:49 PM
From: Hawkmoon   of 312
 
Cool link on Anti-matter!!

That's what we're shooting for down the line, but first we'll probably have to have fusion power reactors in order to produce sufficient quantities of anti-matter through manipulation of the plasma (an assumption on my part).

The problem with anti-matter is that there is NO doubt about how easily such material could be readily turned into devastating weapons of mass destruction. I wouldn't want to trust ANY nation with such power until we have a more stable global political environment (global democracy).

Nuclear power plant fuel has only a small percentage of fissionable U-235 (roughly 3%, I believe), whereas a nuclear warhead is roughly 90% U-235 or plutonium.

But we can still dream about the potential of cheap inexhaustible energy, can't we?

Regards,

Ron
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