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The device would create fusion by heating up forms of height jen to temperatures ten times hotter than the sun. containing that hot gas would create a big super conducting mas net. >> its a magnetic field about 100,000 times stronger than the earths magnetic shield. >> for shields the heat, as it were? >> thats correct. >> it sounds so dangerous. what if it ex-plot? >> first of all, this thing is very hard to keep going. >> we are not talking about nuclear reactors. that can lead to devastating ...

This is a multilayered crisis. were dealing with the issue of search and recovery, search and rescue. but japan is also dealing with the fear of a possible nuclear disaster. with the second explosion at a stricken power plant that has taken place. lets bring in cnns tom foreman following the breaking news for us. >> all eyes are on the fukushima daiichi plants up here. this is the one that everyones concerned about. you mentioned these explosions. this is the first one, a hydrogen explosion insi...

Dave in new york writes the reason your bs detector is on red alert is because the captain of the aircraft carrier sent to japan to help took one look at the radiation levels of returning airplanes and got his boat out of there asap. the intelligent thing to do would be to stop the development of fission reactors and work on fusion reactors. theyre safe and use abundant fuel, our sun is a giant fusion reactor. david writes no, it shouldnt but probably will. an interesting question came up on ano...

Radiation occurring, though what they are doing is very, very innovative to try to keep the core cool. >> because they always built these reactors to withstand an earthquake, but im not sure, at least in japan, they expected a tsunami of this magnitude to cause the kind of damage that its clearly caused to these nuclear power plants. >> i think clearly, wolf, thats one of the lessons learned thats going to come out of this because the plant did handle the earthquake quite well. the diesels worke...

Specialist. its a career for people who want to help humans and robots to get along. youll need to study mit somewhere. that brings us to number seven. its called world watcher. satellites will be used to check everything out from buried ancient cities to temperature and populations. start with studying archaeology, then earth images. next, galactic architects. youll need a masters in space architecture, which is offered now at the university of houston. number nine. a job called fusion workers....