Lost-chapter

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Title text: Honestly, I was a bit relieved when we cut this chapter, because of the twin dangers of pissing off anti-nuclear people and pro-thorium people. Wish me luck!

Votey

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Hey geeks, it's zach/ so, about 1.5 years ago, kelly and I released a popular science book

It became a new york times

Bestseller, thanks to all of you!

Called soonish.

Those of you who read the book know we have a whole section on subjects we dropped for various reasons. What we didn't say is that we also had to cut a whole finished chapter due to space constraints.

We're just now launching a $12 paperback edition, and we thought as part of that we'd share the lost chapter. It's about advanced concepts in nuclear reactor design, and it's freely available to anyone just click this comic to check it out.

ahead!

Click!

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If you haven't read the book, soonish is about medium-term future technologies, why they may or may not happen, why they might be amazing, and why they might be dangerous.

So, for this chapter, you'll get the basic deal on how fission works, why it hasn't gone as well as some people hoped, why it may still have a chance, and what some future designs might look like.

Plus

Comics.

There's also a short bonus section about the time we tried to use compact nuclear bombs to explode our way to space.

And, if you just don't care, please press "z" to see today's regular update. Thanks for reading!

Z

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