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[Skeet]

Damn you. Now you've changed it to U, my post makes me look like a dumbass...
That would be Uranium then?

Ah...but Uranium what? 3 digit number...not 232...

While your all googling that...can anyone tell me, what a Neutron Generator is made of and what it does?

 

[Carlos.]

It's like a quiz night at NASA!

just wish i could join in, even on any level

 

[sumo89]

Uranium 235

 

[Cook$]

A neutron generator is what powers your Mrs's fannyhammer, as it requires an amount of power comparable to that of the particle accelerator at Cerne, and hooking it up to an exercise bike just doesn't cut it. Unless she could ride it down a cobbled street.

 

[onasilverbike]

No, not a shield FROM a Nuclear Weapon, a Shield IN a Nuclear Weapon.

Quite likely one that utilizes both Fusion and Fission reactions.....

Oh, OK, so my kitchen table and blanket are reprieved come Armageddon

 

[sumo89]

Neutron generators are neutron source devices which contain compact linear accelerators and that produce neutrons by fusing isotopes of hydrogen together. The fusion reactions take place in these devices by accelerating either deuterium, tritium, or a mixture of these two isotopes into a metal hydride target which also contains either deuterium, tritium or a mixture. Fusion of deuterium atoms (D + D) results in the formation of a He-3 ion and a neutron with a kinetic energy of approximately 2.5 MeV. Fusion of a deuterium and a tritium atom (D + T) results in the formation of a He-4 ion and a neutron with a kinetic energy of approximately 14.1 MeV.

 

[Cusack]

is it used for particle collisions, as neutrons are uncharged, they can't be accelerated (or easily), so a neutron generator would have to made of a highly unstable, neutron heavy substance. Could uranium 235 be that substance?
probably completely wrong, lol


EDIT: ugh beaten by google

 

[sumo89]

EDIT: ugh beaten by google

actually it was wikipedia

 

[Ion_Paintball]

Well abit of a change form what i startered the thread about

 

[Skeet]

A neutron generator is what powers your Mrs's fannyhammer, as it requires an amount of power comparable to that of the particle accelerator at Cerne, and hooking it up to an exercise bike just doesn't cut it. Unless she could ride it down a cobbled street.

I so love that term "Fannyhammer" makes me chortle.

Well...somebody mentioned Beryllium...which is one component of a Neutron Generator...

Dude...diversification, is how we all learn, or acquire leads to learning...so, from your thread about Battery life, we have come to half lives..almost..and no lives (me)