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Rip added it to the front of the plutonium wedge, along with a piece of beryllium from the bomb, and Kemp welded it in place. They put the thorium block which contained the plutonium into the hole, the plutonium facing outward. Trudeau rammed it to the bottom with his pole. The neutron source, the neutron reflector, and one piece of fissionable material were in place.
Streams of atomic bombs were exploding soundlessly, ineffectively in space, not thirty feet from them as they felt the sudden resistance of the magnetic shields. Hopefully, the 39 probed with her neutron gun. Nothing happened save that several gamma ray bombs went off explosively, and all the atomic bombs in its path exploded at once. Gresth Gkae knew what that meant. Neutron beam guns.
Competition used to be extraneous to the firm now it is commonly an internal affair among autonomous units within a loose overall structure. This is how Jack "neutron" Welsh deliberately structured General Electric.
We fired alphas, gammas, betas, the works, in wide dispersion, concentrated beam and just plain exposure. "Not so much as one neutron of any of them went beyond the glass surrounding that forsaken slop. "They curved around it, Floyd. They curved around it." The physicist leaned his head on the desk. "Nothing should react like that," he sobbed.
And neutron guns in plenty waited on small ships just outside the atmosphere to explode harmlessly any atomic or gamma bombs Miran ships might attempt to deposit. An attack on Luna was the first step. But that terrible, gigantic fort on Luna worried them. Yet while that fort existed, Earth ships were free to come and go, for Mirans could not afford to stand near.
Neutrons aren't used in any process I've run across." "Well, remember they're uncharged, tiny things. Small as protons, but without electric field. The result is they pass right through an ordinary atom without being stopped unless they make a direct hit. Tungsten, while it has a beautifully high melting point, is mostly open space, and a neutron just sails right through it, or any heavy atom.
They spotted the dome of the station, and a neutron ray lashed out at it. On the other, undefended worlds, this had been effective. Here it was answered by ten five-foot UV rays. Further, these men had learned something from the destruction of the cruisers, and ten torpedoes had been unloaded, reloaded with atostor mercury, and sent out bravely. Easily the Mirans wiped out the first torpedo
The newer nuclear drive cruisers had no need to stop. Their atomic piles needed new neutron sources only once in a few years. The voice horn in the rocket cabin sounded. "The SCN Scorpius is passing Valve Two, landing at Valve Eight." "I thought that ship was with Squadron One on Mercury," Rip recalled. "Wonder why they pulled it back here?"
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