The detonation of a fission device includes the compression of the pit to 1/3 of its original volume. This compression is done using systemic explosives shockwaves. There is also neutron reflectors/amplifiers involved to keep neutrons inside the pit.
In LENR, by their very nature, the lack of confinement of muons makes a rapid chain reaction impossible because the speed of the chain reaction cannot be confined and therefore be accelerated. On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 5:31 PM, Jones Beene <jone...@pacbell.net> wrote: > Russ George wrote: > > Whoa indeed, nanoseconds are way to slow for fission! > > > So what? Who needs fission when you can achieve complete nuclear > disintegration - as Holmlid claims to do with a small laser. > > With fission of U, the energy release per nucleon is in the range of > 200MeV. With laser implosion of UDD, the energy available is 2 GeV. Given > that the mass of the U is 120 times more to start with but the energy > release of fission is 10 times less, there is a great advantage to the > Holmlid effect. The energy density favors UDD by three orders of magnitude > but it is not a direct competition. Muons are weakly interacting, but this > is not important, since in the big picture - we already have overkill with > our fission/fusion arsenal. That arsenal will not be replaced. It is a sunk > cost. > > The use of LENR as a weapon will probably emerge in other novel ways which > are not even considered now - on the small scale instead of the large. A > laser pointer engineered to ignite a milligram of UDD - that is the nature > of the new threat. It can be delivered by drone. >
