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Servant Corps

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Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« on: May 16, 2010, 04:59:49 pm »
...by North Korea...

Is there any Korean watchers that can confirm this to be true or false?
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2010, 05:01:51 pm »
Erm...

For the sake of scepticism (and the way North Korea works) I call this out as bullshit or propaganda.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2010, 05:02:12 pm »
 ...Yeah I'd take anything N Korea say with a grain of salt.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2010, 05:03:21 pm »
With a damn fistful of salt, considering the complete lack of actual information in the article.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2010, 05:03:30 pm »
Except that if North Korea is talking to you, you don't get any salt OR grain.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2010, 05:03:57 pm »
Quote from: fenrif on May 16, 2010, 05:02:12 pm
...Yeah I'd take anything N Korea say with a grain of salt.
You need a lot more than just one grain when dealing with N Korea.

I'll only accept this when the view of No Korea from space at night is suddenly filled with lights after the course of ten years or so. THEN we know something is afoot.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2010, 05:06:54 pm »
Sounds like complete bull, just from the way the article was written.

Anyway, forgive me I've got my head in the nuclear sand, didn't we already have nuclear fusion, hence all those silly isotopes like Ununquadium? just it takes way more energy to make them than they release, obviously.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2010, 05:07:24 pm »
Quote from: Servant Corps on May 16, 2010, 04:59:49 pm
...by North Korea...

Is there any Korean watchers that can confirm this to be true or false?
Does north Korea even have nuclear capabilities yet? Last thing I heard they were still trying to duct tape a reactor together using string, Styrofoam and medical waste.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2010, 05:08:12 pm »
Where have you been, they've been doing tests for a few years now and the international community is going crazy trying to make them stop.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2010, 05:08:22 pm »
Nuclear fusion was discovered in the 1930's, its the engineering requirements to make it a practical energy source that are the problem. North korea probably just made a knockoff of a soviet era tokamak reactor.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2010, 05:09:13 pm »
Quote from: Dwarf on May 16, 2010, 05:01:51 pm
Erm...

For the sake of scepticism (and the way North Korea works) I call this out as bullshit or propaganda.

Not to mention the fact that the cnn report says that they did it on Kim II Sungs birthday, which sounds like BS to me and propoganda.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #11 on: May 16, 2010, 05:10:04 pm »
Quote from: kuro_suna on May 16, 2010, 05:08:22 pm
Nuclear fusion was discovered in the 1930's, its the engineering requirements to make it a practical energy source that are the problem. North korea probably just made a knockoff of a soviet era tokamak reactor.

That's what I thought...

I still refuse to believe, from the article, that they are not being disingenuous about something.
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2010, 05:12:51 pm »
Yeah, North Korea's infamous for their psedoscientific babble in these regards.

However, pay attention to the following. They might well produce functional fusion reactors in some years

http://www.iter.org/default.aspx

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ignition_Facility

http://www.generalfusion.com/t5_general_fusion.php
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2010, 05:14:22 pm »
This just in: Kim Il Sung invented the automobile while traveling to the Moon.  Son Kim Il Jong expresses jealousy, quoted as saying, "Oh yeah, Dad?  Well I'll show you!  We'll have all the energy we can ever use, and we won't let anyone see it!"
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Re: Nuclear Fusion Discovered
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2010, 05:16:47 pm »
Also how to make your own fusion reactor for under $20,000
http://www.brian-mcdermott.com/what_it_takes.htm
« Last Edit: May 16, 2010, 05:18:33 pm by kuro_suna »
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