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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Bilow who wrote (124855)2/20/2004 1:50:50 AM
From: smolejv@gmx.net  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
OT - Hi Bilow: I hope we dont get raised brows from Ken for spending the bandwith on the subject - ell, I'll put an OT up from. OK, that's done.

Half-life of a given element does not change. It's as constant as electron charge or age of universe or alpha. What does change, is the composition of the weapon ("how long until half of the weapon material is gone") or its durability / half-life (again, of weapon - iow "How long until 50% of weapons are useless for the mission"). Now I'll read on. It looks thou like they knew what they were doing (sg).

re >>Using a "neutron multiplication" factor of k = 0.9, it's easy enough to compute that each natural decay produces 0.9/(1 - 0.9) = 9 induced decays, for a total of 10 decays.<< Huh? One natural decay produces 0.9 additional (due to thermalisation or whatever). Were it >9< additional, whew ... I suggest, we go PM and yes I'll look it up in the wikipedia.
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