In reply to Jones Beene's message of Sat, 17 Jul 2004 12:48:30 -0700: Hi, [snip] >The two physicists found that, when a deuteron is fired into a target atom even >weakly, the neutron of that atom can be stripped off the proton and penetrate the >nucleus of the target. [snip] This is actually the description of a fusion reaction, where the energy to split the deuteron is derived from the formation of the new nucleus. (The splitting and the fusion in effect occurring concurrently).
Regards, Robin van Spaandonk Hot fusion is sort of like Heaven, It's the reward you get long after everyone's dead
