Hi Tom.

19-Nov-03 07:46:00, Tom Walker wrote to Pascal Schmidt

  -> Hi Tom! :-)

 PS->  Not entirely true. Hard radiation produced during fusion (which

 PS>> gives out all kinds of electromagnetic waves, including gamma
 PS>> radiation) would have made the envisioned reactor chamber enclosures
 PS>> sures radioactive after short use.

 TW> Gee I must have missed something in my Nuclear Physics class. I
 TW> don't rembember Gamma Rays as having the capability to make
 TW> substiances Radioactive.

 TW> Please refresh me with a reference as it has been some 48 years

AFAICT you're right electromagnetic radiation as a rule doesn'y make stuff
radioactive (unless it's extremenly enegetic - enough to smash a nucleus or
create particles)

however the fusion reation seen inside the experimental fusion reactors
also produces energetic neutrons, and they can make metal brittle and
make all stuff radioactive.

 TW> since I took that course in the US Navy's Nuclear Power School.


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