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Fred W. Bach wrote:
> 
>   Bruce,
> 
>   Thanks. Now I understand. We can easily initiate fission with
>   neutrons with protons alone, so why not with alphas?
>   Makes perfect sense to me. That kind of thing has been done
>   for years in atomic-beam collisions. When trying to get nuclei
>   to stick together to form other nuclei (perhaps short-lived ones
>   like we make at TRIUMF for studying the stars), if the experimenter
>   gets the energy a little too high, the destination target atom will
>   crack apart (fission) instead of just absorbing the incoming particle
>   (a fusion reaction). Come to think of it, what you are talking about
>   is really not radical or so new. I can't quite see why you want
>   to shout it from the rooftops.


* No, alpha fission is not new. I do not claim to have discovered 
alpha fission. What I do claim is that a clean reactor can be
built on this type of reaction. My research has lead me to design 
a clean, practical reactor, with no toxic radioisotopic by-products.
What I am trying to shout is that we can build clean reactors! Let's
stop producing bombs and build clean energy sources!


>
> I highly await your information. 


* I'm sure it will stir many hornet nests...


>
> I agree that the paranoia is just that - like being afraid of 
> the dark. 


* Well, it doesant help when Big Brother is showing little brothers
and sisters visions of the boggie-man.


>
> In the business I'm in, I see it quite often with visitors and in the 
> people I meet. They have no training, no knowledge of nuclear science, 
> and are afraid of all things 'nuclear'. They need to realize that the 
> potassium in their bodies is radioactive. I get some funny reactions 
> when I tell them that!


* Education is the key here. This is exactly my mission. However, you 
must realize that the public has been force fed with government
propaganda.
Yes, atomic bombs and nuclear reactors now in use are deadly toxic,
even more so than the government cares to admit. This is like saying
that
"money is the root of all evil," when in fact, money can also be at the
root
of good things. 


>
> If you're talking *motivation* then I may agree - but NOT if you're
> talking science. The Standard Model is THE number-one most
> successful theory of matter ever devised by man. It's too uncannily 
> accurate in its predictions to be all wrong. Do we know everything?  
> Heck no. But do we know nothing? Hardly!


* Who said anything about changing the present "standard model?"
Yes, it is accurate... however, there are holes that need to be 
filled...


>
> Do you have something better than the Standard Model???


* Yes, experimental and proven too. The problem is not with the 
model, it is that some of the gears that run it are missing.


>>
>> Atomic bomb era may have hindered our
>> growth for centuries to come.
>
>  I don't understand this. Please explain.


* It is a fact, from my findings that these bomb era
Scientists have really screwed things up as far as
atomic energy is concerned. I do not know if their
atomic theory on nuclear fission was ment to confuse
the truth for national security reasons or not. I
tend to think that this is the case. I do know that
what we have been told about fission is comepletely
wrong.


    -Bruce A. Perreault