Return-path: X-Andrew-Authenticated-as: 7997;andrew.cmu.edu;Ted Anderson Received: from beak.andrew.cmu.edu via trymail for +dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl@andrew.cmu.edu (->+dist+/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr11/tm2b/space/space.dl) (->ota+space.digests) ID ; Mon, 15 Jan 90 01:31:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU From: space-request+@Andrew.CMU.EDU To: space+@Andrew.CMU.EDU Date: Mon, 15 Jan 90 01:30:58 -0500 (EST) Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #429 SPACE Digest Volume 10 : Issue 429 Today's Topics: Re: Nuclear Reactors in Space Re: Nuclear Reactors in Space ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 15 Jan 90 05:51:06 GMT From: mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!physics.utoronto.ca!neufeld@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Neufeld) Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors in Space In article <15627@boulder.Colorado.EDU> serre@tramp.Colorado.EDU (SERRE GLENN) writes: >How does one synthisize Pu238, anyway? What material does one start out with, >and what does one then bombard it with? > According to the CRC, Pu238 was first synthesized in 1940 at the 60 inch cyclotron at Berkeley by bombarding uranium with deuterons. >--Glenn Serre >serre@tramp.colorado.edu -- Christopher Neufeld....Just a graduate student | neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca | The meek can have the cneufeld@pro-generic.cts.com | earth, I want the stars. "Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity" | ------------------------------ Date: 15 Jan 90 02:36:15 GMT From: tramp!serre@boulder.colorado.edu (SERRE GLENN) Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors in Space How does one synthisize Pu238, anyway? What material does one start out with, and what does one then bombard it with? Thanks in advance, and apologies if someone has already answered this question. --Glenn Serre serre@tramp.colorado.edu ------------------------------ End of SPACE Digest V10 #429 *******************