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  10. Date: Mon, 15 Jan 90 01:30:58 -0500 (EST)
  11. Subject: SPACE Digest V10 #429
  12.  
  13. SPACE Digest                                     Volume 10 : Issue 429
  14.  
  15. Today's Topics:
  16.             Re: Nuclear Reactors in Space
  17.             Re: Nuclear Reactors in Space
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  19.  
  20. Date: 15 Jan 90 05:51:06 GMT
  21. From: mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!physics.utoronto.ca!neufeld@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu  (Christopher Neufeld)
  22. Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors in Space
  23.  
  24. In article <15627@boulder.Colorado.EDU> serre@tramp.Colorado.EDU (SERRE GLENN) writes:
  25. >How does one synthisize Pu238, anyway? What material does one start out with, 
  26. >and what does one then bombard it with?
  27. >
  28.    According to the CRC, Pu238 was first synthesized in 1940 at the 60 inch
  29. cyclotron at Berkeley by bombarding uranium with deuterons.
  30.  
  31. >--Glenn Serre
  32. >serre@tramp.colorado.edu
  33.  
  34. -- 
  35.  Christopher Neufeld....Just a graduate student  | 
  36.  neufeld@helios.physics.utoronto.ca              | The meek can have the
  37.  cneufeld@pro-generic.cts.com                    | earth, I want the stars.
  38.  "Don't edit reality for the sake of simplicity" |
  39.  
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  41.  
  42. Date: 15 Jan 90 02:36:15 GMT
  43. From: tramp!serre@boulder.colorado.edu  (SERRE GLENN)
  44. Subject: Re: Nuclear Reactors in Space
  45.  
  46. How does one synthisize Pu238, anyway? What material does one start out with, 
  47. and what does one then bombard it with?
  48.  
  49. Thanks in advance, and apologies if someone has already answered this 
  50. question.  
  51.  
  52. --Glenn Serre
  53. serre@tramp.colorado.edu
  54.  
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  56.  
  57. End of SPACE Digest V10 #429
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