Breakable wrote:
Reduced shielding? Even if you reduce the frequency of the pulses the amount of prompt radiation from each pulse will stay the same and thus the required shielding will also be the same.
I think radiation dose can be calculated by Dose=Time*Intensity. So if you reduce frequency, you reduce the time.
But that changes one of the primary tenets of FF – its plug and play capability.
It moves you from the literal and metaphorical safe zone of “less than background radiation” to the slippery slope of “an acceptable dose in excess of background radiation”… and that slope, the concept of what is an “acceptable dose of radiation,” has always moved downwards as we gather more data on what a given dose of radiation actually does.
And as I’ve said before: given the reaming the American people has received from our lords and masters… and with the worst of that yet to come… now would not be a good time to rely on the rhetoric of “suck it up.”
