Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site aurora.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!ames!aurora!eugene From: eugene@aurora.UUCP (Eugene miya) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics Subject: Re: alternate, hopefully safe, energy sources Message-ID: <283@aurora.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Aug-84 14:42:08 EDT Article-I.D.: aurora.283 Posted: Sun Aug 5 14:42:08 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 00:31:08 EDT References: <798@ihuxx.UUCP> <9368@gatech.UUCP>, <1009@ihuxi.UUCP> Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 12 The 'promise' of low waste fusion is somewhat bogus. There are lots of unknowns still regarding containment. The best figures I have heard say fusion vessels would have a lifetime of at best 30-40 years [roughly equivalent to fission vessels] due to neutron bombardment. After that, you would have a radioactive heap of zirconium steel alloy. Let's proceed with fusion research, but let's not make the same mistakes we made with fission. --eugene miya NASA Ames Res. Ctr.