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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (124859)	2/20/2004 7:09:37 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) of 281500

Hi Maurice Winn; Re: "Thinking about deteriorating nukes due to natural fission processes, it's obvious that the rate of deterioration is in the order of at least lots of decades or the things would melt." I thought the same thing, at least until I ran the calculation. A 20KT weapon is around 5.5 x 10^13 joules. If 10% of it decays over 20 years, that's would be about 8KW. Hey, you'd notice it if it was under your bed, but it's not outside the scope of engineering to design a reasonably small toy that dissipates 8KW. Heck, here are engineers that have included small 10KW resistors in their electronics designs (LOL): google.com -- Carl

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