Risk Comparison

[IonActive]

Yo all.

Thought you might like the following:

http://www.ionactive.co.uk/blog.html

I am looking at risk comparison and exploring if it is any use when looking at ionising radiation. I also look at my own problems with flying and discuss if risk comparison would do me any good.

Hope you find it interesting.

rgs

Mark

[kevlarion]

I did find it interesting, although a lot of the technical stuff wooshed straight over my head.
In the piece about "A is for Atom" it's mentioned that they talked about nuclear planes as if they were just around the corner, interestingly in the late 50s and early 60s the russians did experiment with nuclear powered bombers, they developed a nuclear jet engine which used the heat from a nuclear reaction to massively expand the air in the engine.
http://www.aviation-history.com/article ... ombers.htm

[IonActive]

I did find it interesting, although a lot of the technical stuff wooshed straight over my head.
In the piece about "A is for Atom" it's mentioned that they talked about nuclear planes as if they were just around the corner, interestingly in the late 50s and early 60s the russians did experiment with nuclear powered bombers, they developed a nuclear jet engine which used the heat from a nuclear reaction to massively expand the air in the engine.
http://www.aviation-history.com/article ... ombers.htm

Thanks for the link - interesting. Yes, they did this in the US too - but found shielding a problem (was too heavy).

.. and the russians have not given up on the idea either !

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/29 ... spaceship/