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Just to clarify...this not a nuclear cannon. This is a conventional chemical cannon with a nuclear warhead in the "shell". I think the OP was referring to using a nuclear blast to fire the projectile. Lsos has the correct idea and a interesting link referencing "thunderwells".

I agree the statement is correct. The possiblity of having a reaction without free neutrons I believe is critical to the success of implementing fusion power stations as a reactor that destroys it containment vessel would be unpractical. I just thought I would mention the reaction as I feel its...

Don't forget about the fabled helium-3 reaction...

Yes, in stars, all elements are used in a variety of fusion reactions to create all elements up to Iron. In supernovas, temperatures are very briefly high enough to create the other heavier elements above iron so, all of the atoms that make up you and the world around you were created in a...

It all depends what you are looking with... If you are using your eyes, distance is finite... If you are using an gamma ray/xray telescope pointed in the right spot... you could see one from light years away.

Absolutely.

Yes, this is how they use a fission primary to create the pressure and temperature necessary for a fission-fusion (thermonuclear) weapon. In practice, the blast is focused ...but only for milliseconds, as the containment structure is eliminated almost instantly. There is no known method of...

Run a single beam from the current connection point at the top of your existing red beam to the bottom of your new wall indicated by the blue line. No other reinforcement is needed. If you build it out like the picture, you are placing your new blue beam in sheer stress, which is a poor design...