Something like ice fishing. harry
On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 10:09 AM Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Aliens might eat it? > > On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 9:52 AM H L V <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> hmmm ...this hypothetical scenario was included in the same press report >> with no further comment: >> "Upon reaching the ocean, the probe may encounter extraterrestrial life >> forms that attempt to metabolize the probe." >> >> Harry >> >> On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 9:30 AM H L V <hveeder...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Accessing Icy World Oceans Using Lattice Confinement Fusion Fast Fission >>> >>> >>> https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/niac/2023/Accessing_Icy_World_Oceans/ >>> >>> quote >>> Icy World researchers have proposed using a nuclear powered, heated >>> probe. However, rather than require either the plutonium-238 radioisotope >>> heat source or an enriched uranium-235 fission reactor, with significant >>> launch safety costs, we propose making use of the recent Lattice >>> Confinement Fusion source used to efficiently fast-fission either depleted >>> uranium or thorium in a molten lithium matrix. The resulting hybrid fusion >>> fast fission nuclear reactor will be smaller than a traditional fission >>> reactor where a lower mass power source is needed and provide efficient >>> operation with thermal waste heat from reactor heats probe to melt through >>> ice shelf to sub-ice oceans. >>> >>
